Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Modern Ladakh : anthropological perspectives on continuity and change / edited by Martijn van Beek and Fernanda Pirie.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 20
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 20.
Contents Visions of Ladakh: Nicola Grist, 19 April 1957-26 August 2004 / Sophie Day -- Corvée transport labour in 19th and early 20th century Ladakh: a study in continuity and change / John Bray -- Carpet weaving Ladakh and the influence of Sonam Paljor / Monisha Ahmed -- Urbanisation in Kargil and its effects in the Suru valley / Nicola Grist -- Distant neighbours either side of the Omasi La : the Zanskarpa and the Bod communities of Paldar / Isabelle Riaboff -- Calculs pour l'ouverture de la bouche de la terre: étude du temps, géomancie et art divinatoire au Ladakh / Pascale Dollfus -- Small shoes and painted faces: possession states and empbodiment in Buddhist Ladakh / Martin A. Mills -- Reformulating ingredients: outlines of a contemporary ritual for the consecration of medicines in Ladakh / Laurent Pordié -- Dancing in the face of death: Losar celebration in Photoksar / Fernanda Pirie -- Groupes d'unifiliation, parenté et societé à maison au Ladakh (le phaspun) / Patrick Kaplanian -- Women's narrative life histories: implications for maternal and child health in Ladakh / Nancy P. Chin, Tim Dye and Richard Lee -- Land use, land administration and land right in Shigar, Baltistan / Matthias Schmidt -- The introduction of modern chemical fertiliser to the Zangskar valley, Ladakh, and its effects on agricultural productivity, soil quality and Zangskari society / J. Seb Mankelow -- Changing currents: an ethnography of the traditional irrigation practices of Leh town / Sunandan Tiwari and Radhika Gupta.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Chiefly in English; two articles in French.
Subject Ladakhi (South Asian people) -- Social conditions.
Ladakhi (South Asian people)
Social conditions.
Ladakhi (South Asian people) -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Ladākh (India) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Beek, Martijn van, 1961-
Pirie, Fernanda, 1964-
Other Form: Print version: Modern Ladakh. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004167131 (DLC) 2008017977 (OCoLC)226291919
ISBN 9789047443346 (electronic book)
9047443349 (electronic book)
9789004167131
9004167137