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Author: James F. Fisher
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789745242012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this groundbreaking study, anthropologist Fisher analyses the external forces that impact this isolated and otherwise self-sufficent community in western Nepal.
Author: James F. Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789745242029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthropologist Fisher returns to Tarang in northwestern Nepal, 44 years after conducting his groundbreaking study there, to document and analyse the impact of modernization on a once-isolated people.
Author: James F. Fisher
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788120803732
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Author: Janet Rizvi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book documents the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of Ladakh largely depended. Although the trans-Himalayan traffic in subsistence commodities in other parts of the Himalaya has been researched, that in Ladakh has until now remained almost entirely undocumented. The book is based mainly on oral evidence; this is related to documentary sources ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This intriguing account of Ladakhi trade is spiced with enough personal details of the traders at all levels, to demonstrate that trade' is something more than a matter of routes and commodities, prices and rates of profit; it is an activity carried out by real human beings, profoundly colouring their entire way of life.
Author: Christoph Bergmann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 3319297074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the border triangle between India, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR, People’s Republic of China), and Nepal, where contestations over political boundaries have created multiple challenges as well as opportunities for local mountain communities. Based on an analytical framework that is grounded in and contributes to recent advances in the field of border studies, the author explores how the Bhotiyas have used their agency to develop a flourishing trans-Himalayan trade under British colonial influence; to assert an identity and win legal recognition as a tribal community in the political setup of independent India; and to innovate their pastoral mobility in the context of ongoing state and market reforms. By examining the Bhotiyas’ trade, identity and mobility this book shows how and why the Himalayan border region has evolved as an agentive site of political action for a variety of different actors.
Author: Phanindranath Chakrabarty
Publisher: South Asia Books
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9788185132105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780312373108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Amish Raj Mulmi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-05-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0197654207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the June 2020 territorial dispute over Kalapani, India blamed tensions on a newly assertive Nepal's deepening relations with China. But beyond the accusations and grandstanding, this reflects a new reality: the power equations in South Asia have been redrawn, to make space for China. Nepal did not turn northwards overnight. Its ties with China have deep historical roots built on Buddhism, dating to the early first millennium. While India's unofficial 2015 blockade provided momentum to the rift with Delhi, Nepal has long wanted deeper ties with Beijing, to counteract India's oppressive intimacy. With China's growing South Asian and global ambitions, Nepal now has a new primary bilateral partner-and Nepalis are forging a path towards modernity with its help, both in the remote borderlands and in the cities. All Roads Lead North offers a long view of Nepal's foreign relations, today underpinned by China's world-power status. Sharing never- before-told stories about Tibetan guerrilla fighters, failed coup leaders and trans- Himalayan traders, Nepal analyst Amish Raj Mulmi examines the histories binding mountain communities together across the Sino-Nepali border. Part history, part journalistic account, Mulmi's is a complex, compelling and rigorously researched study of a small country caught between two neighbourhood giants.
Author: James F. Fisher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-05-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0520909941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 1964. Returning to the Everest region several times during the 1970s and 1980s, he discovered that the construction of the schools had far less impact than one of the by-products of their building: a short-take-off-and-landing airstrip. By reducing the time it took to travel between Kathmandu and the Everest region from a hike of several days to a 45-minute flight, the airstrip made a rapid increase in tourism possible. Beginning with his impressions of Sherpa society in pre-tourist days, Fisher traces the trajectory of contemporary Sherpa society reeling under the impact of modern education and mass tourism, and assesses the Sherpa's concerns for their future and how they believe these problems should be and eventually will be resolved.
