Mapping Amdo : dynamics of change / edited by Jarmila Ptáčková and Adrian Zenz.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • Tibetan
  • Chinese
Published/​Created
Prague : Oriental Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 2017.
Description
263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Language note
    Text in English, Tibetan, and Chinese.
    Contents
    • Introduction : mapping Amdo : people and places in an ongoing transition / Emilia Róża Sulek and Jarmila Ptáčková
    • Ecological change on the Tibetan plateau and the human interface : pastoralists as agents and victims of environmental impact / Andreas Gruschke
    • Mapping tertiary graduate student trends and advertised public sector recruitment in the Amdo and Kham Tibetan regions / Adrian Senz
    • The abstract state : dilemmas of sovereignty and scale among Tibetans in China / Charlene Makley
    • The warrior in the mountain and his people : Labtse mountain cult and its social significance in an Amdo Tibetan village / Rahel Tsering
    • Understanding Tibetan attitudes toward sacred natural sites in the Gato Jowo (Sga stod jo bo) sacred mountains, in the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve / Awang Jimed
    • Descent and houses in Rebong (Reb gong) : group formation and rules of recruitment among eastern Tibetan Tsho ba / Reinier Langelaar
    • Gtsang A rig : a Tibetan tribe classified as Mongol / Ute Wallenböck
    • The Nyen Collection (Gnyan 'bum) and Shenrab Miwo of Nam / Daniel Berounský.
    ISBN
    • 9788085425666
    • 8085425661
    OCLC
    1004308586
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