Proceedings of the International Seminar on the
Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya, September 21 - 28 1990 at the
Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich/edited by Charles Ramble and
Martin Brauen. Kathmandu, Vajra Publications, 1993, 442 p., figs., (pbk). ISBN 3-909105-24-6.
Contents: Preface. 1. Hierarchy and complementarity in newar eating arrangements/Michael Allen. 2. Shakti Yogamaya: a tradition of dissent in Nepal/Barbara Nimri Aziz. 3. Contesting hierarchy: on gambling as an authoritative resource in Tibetan refugee society/Marcia Calkowski. 4. The social and religious identity of the Tibetan Bonpos/Krystyna Cech. 5. Anthropology of the Nepal Himalaya: a critical appraisal/Dilli R. Dahal. 6. Gangla Tshechu, Beyul Khenbalung: pilgrimage to hidden valleys, sacred mountains and springs of life water in Southern Tibet and Eastern Nepal/Hildegard Diemberger. 7. The Tibetan Plateau - one of the Homes of early man/Gelek. 8. Muslim kinship and marriage in Ladakh/Nicola Grist. 9. From "British Naturalism" to abstract modern painting in Nepal/Susanne von der Heide. 10. Remarks on the orientation of the large stupas in the Kathmandu Valley: a discussion of principles of Lunar ordering/Reinhard Herdick. 11. Agricultural labour recruitment among the newars and other groups in the sub-Himalayan areas/Hiroshi Ishii. 12. Thang-stong Rgyal-Po-A Leonardo of Tibet/Wolf Kahlen. 13. The wind-horse and the well-being of man/Samten G. Karmay. 14. The ethnic groups of Baltistan/Abbas Kazmi. 15. Himalayan frontier trade: newar diaspora merchants and Buddhism/Todd T. Lewis. 16. Charnel ground traditions in Tibet: some remarks and observations/Andrea Loseries. 17. Shamanic belief among Nomads in Northern Tibet/Ma Lihua. 18. Flatter, promise, threaten, kill: a discursive analysis of Shamanic Mantar/Gregory G. Maskarinec. 19. Culture and the transformation of suffering among the Gurungs of Nepal/Ernsestine L. McHugh. 20. Sammlungen der Missionare Der Herrnhuter Bruder-Mission Aus Ladakh - Inhalt und Standorte/Gudrun Meier. 21. Is there Tibetan culture(s) without Buddhism?/Beatrice Diamond Miller. 22. Complementary and hierarchical aspects of Brahman-Chetri social structure/Michael Muhlich. 23. Culturally appropriate development: an anthropological study of villages in Eastern Nepal/Rohit Kumar Nepali. 24. Drongo/Michael Oppitz. 25. Blood and Bodhisattvas: Sacrifice among the newar Buddhists of Nepal/Bruce McCoy Owens. 26. The Nepalese Durga-Puja festival or displaying military supremacy on ritual occasions/Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka. 27. Rule by play in Southern Mustang/Charles Ramble. 28. The Central Asian archive in Bonn and the Catalogue of the Tibetan and Mongolian Culture/Hans Roth. 29. Observations made during the month of Muharram, 1989, in Baltistan/Ursula Sagaster. 30. Shamanism, Bon and Tibetan religion/Geoffrey Samuel. 31. Inducing Trance: on the training of Ladakhi oracle healers/Amelie Schenk. 32. Who marries whom and why among the Khumbo/Christian Schicklgruber. 33. Sanskritisation and environmental perception among Tibeto-Burman speaking groups/Klaus Seeland. 34. Caste societies in the State of Nepal: a historical perspective/Prayag R. Sharma. 35. Lha-RNGA: a form of Ladakhi "Folk" music and its relationship to the great tradition of Tibetan Buddhism/Mark Trewin. 36. Antiquities on the Southern arteries of the silk route: ethnic movements and new discoveries/Rohit Vohra. 37. Some epistemological aspects of caste among the newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal/Peter Webster. 38. Tibet research in China by Tibetans and Chinese after 1949/Eugen Wehrli. 39. The forms of chanting Gesar and the Bon religion in Tibet/Yang En-hong.