Peace and Conflict in Ladakh : The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order.

This anthropological study of Ladakh analyses the means by which small communities create spaces of order amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity. In doing so it also filling a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on Tibetan law.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Pirie, Fernanda.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Boston : BRILL, 2006.
Series:Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • MAPS
  • CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER TWO LADAKH
  • CHAPTER THREE VILLAGE ORGANISATION
  • CHAPTER FOUR CONFLICT IN THE VILLAGE
  • CHAPTER FIVE THE REALM OF THE SPIRITS
  • CHAPTER SIX LOSAR
  • CHAPTER SEVEN THE SACRED SOCIAL ORDER
  • CHAPTER EIGHT ETHNOGRAPHIC TIBET
  • CHAPTER NINE URBAN PROCESSES AND POLITICAL CHANGE
  • CHAPTER TEN CONCLUSION
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.