Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan InterfaceJames F. Fisher |
Contents
Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas | 7 |
Kinship and Culture in the Himalayan Region | 27 |
A Cultural Subspecies | 43 |
What Whither and Whether | 67 |
Stratification and Religion in a Himalayan Society | 83 |
Changing Patterns of Multiethnic Interaction in the Western | 103 |
The Dual Role of High Caste Women in Nepal | 121 |
Rotating Credit Associations in Nepal | 141 |
Tibetan Oracles | 287 |
A Case of Cultural Diffusion | 309 |
The Saintly Madman in Tibet | 327 |
Life in | 359 |
Ethnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees | 395 |
Himalayan Religion and Folklore | 421 |
Notes on the Origins of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley | 433 |
Intercaste Relations in a Newar Community | 461 |
The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society | 167 |
Nepalis in Tibet | 187 |
A Few Themes Drawn from | 227 |
The Retention of Pastoralism among the Kirghiz of the Afghan | 233 |
A Tibetan Semantic Device | 251 |
The Role of the Priest in Newar Society | 483 |
Structure and Change of a Newari Festival Organization | 505 |
A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās | 529 |
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