Author: Rinzin ThargyalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Traditional Estate in Eastern Tibet
Author: Rinzin ThargyalA traditional estate in Eastern Tibet
Author: Rinzin ThargyalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nomads
Languages : no
Pages : 488
Book Description
Nomads of Eastern Tibet
Author: Rinzin ThargyalPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904742168X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based upon extensive ethnographic interviews, this study yields a nuanced analysis of the most crucial and controversial relationship in premodern Tibetan societies, namely, that ensuing between local lords and their dependents. It convincingly readdresses anthropological debates and political claims about feudalism or serfdom in Tibetan societies from a perspective that is more sensitive to local historical, social, and economic contexts.
Atraditional Estate in Eastern Tibet
Author: Rinzin TargyalThe Traditional Lhasa House
Author: André AlexanderPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643902034
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This book looks at a particular type of indigenous architecture that has developed in the city of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The focus is on the vernacular residential architecture in the form of the historic Lhasa Town House, as it was built and lived in from the mid-17th to mid-20th century. The book defines the Lhasa House as a distinct variety of traditional Tibetan architecture by providing a technical analysis and discussing the cultural framework and the development of a typology. (Series: HABITAT - INTERNATIONAL: Articles on International Urban Development / Schriften zur internationalen Stadtentwicklung - Vol. 18)
Tibet House Museum
Author: Tibet House MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Tibetan
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Commoners and Nobles
Author: Heidi FjeldPublisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788791114175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This study explores how Tibetans manoeuvre within two contradictory value systems - those of old Tibet and the new People's Republic of China - balancing between ideals and pragmatism. More specifically, it asks how it is that the social categories of pre-communist Lhasa persist and are relevant in daily life despite decades of Chinese rule and the comprehensive restructuring of Tibetan society.
The Great Closed Land
Author: Annie Westland MarstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tibetan Houses
Author: Peter HerrlePublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035608687
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The region of the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan plateau is known for its unique and characteristic vernacular architecture and housing culture which is slowly but surely disappearing. The first part of the book analyses 19 traditional houses in the region that respond in diverse ways to the specifics of their location and local climate. The second part presents a comparative study of the construction elements – walls, roof and façades – using photographs and hand-drawn construction details. The newly produced scale drawings provide an excellent basis for comparative review. Detailed plans, atmospheric photographs and informative texts take the reader on a journey through a fascinating building culture.
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Author: Theresia HoferPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574300X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet�s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitioners, or amchi, and of Medical Houses in the west-central region of Tsang. Due to difficult research access and the power of state institutions in the writing of history, the perspectives of more marginal amchi have been absent from most accounts of Tibetan medicine. Theresia Hofer breaks new ground both theoretically and ethnographically, in ways that would be impossible in today�s more restrictive political climate that severely limits access for researchers. She illuminates how medical practitioners safeguarded their professional heritage through great adversity and personal hardship.