High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan PastoralistsColumbia University Press, 2003 M11 5 - 336 pages An ethnographic and ecological history of Dolpo, a culturally Tibetan region in western Nepal that is home to some of the highest villages on earth; almost ninety percent of the region lies above 10,000 feet in elevation. Its inhabitants wrest survival from this inhospitable landscape by creatively exploiting agriculture, animal husbandry, and trade. |
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High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists Kenneth M. Bauer Limited preview - 2004 |
High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists Kenneth M. Bauer No preview available - 2004 |
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Agrawal agricultural agro-pastoral amchi animals areas Aumeeruddy-Thomas Bo¨n border groups Buddhist Caravan century chapter China Chinese communities conservation cultural Dalai DNPWC Dolpa District Dolpo Dolpo-pa Dolpo’s villagers Dunai ecological economic Eric Valli ethnic film film’s forage frontier Fu¨rer-Haimendorf global goats Goldstein grazing groups Gurung herders herds Himalayas Hindu household Humla District India infrastructure interview by author Kag-Rimi Kathmandu Khampa labor Lama land livestock living Majesty’s Government Maoist medicinal migration mobile monasteries mountain movement Mustang District Nangkhong Valley nation-state Nepalese netsang nomads Norbu northern organization Panzang Valley pastoral pastoralists patterns People’s Phoksundo National Park plants political population Program range rangelands relations relationships religious resource-use ritual salt seasonal Shakya Sherpa Shey Phoksundo National snow leopard social species Spengen Tarap Tarap Valley Tenzin Thakali Thinle Lhundrup Tibet Autonomous Region Tibetan border Tibetan Plateau Tichurong tourism trade traditional trans-Himalaya Tsharka western Tibet Wildlife