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After more than a quarter century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began again to openly practise their religion in the early 1990s. Their...
ANCIENT FUTURES; EARNING FROM LADKH. Ladakh is a wildly beautiful desert land in the western Himalayas, with few resources and an extreme climate. Yet there is an ancient and thriving culture. Traditions of...
A complete traverse across the ‘Himalayan’ collision zone from Tibetan rocks near the Chinese border south to the foreland basin near Jhelum is exposed along the Karakorum Highway. Looks at the formation...
Evidence for two mountain-building processes: magmatism at continental margins and crustal thickening following continental collision, with the Karakorum geotraverse in the Himalayas as example. Discusses...
B H Hodgson (1800-1894) was renowned in the 19th century as a diplomat, linguist, zoologist, ethnologist and collector. He spent almost 40 years living in the Himalayas - mainly in Nepal and Darjeeling -...
The forests on the hill slopes of the Himalayas are disappearing and it is no longer possible for the hill people to find enough firewood or fodder for their animals. Discusses the conflict between...
Discusses the traditional trans-Himalayan trade links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by...
The influence of the inner shamanic tradition is clearly shown as the shaman aids a client family by controlling spirits, foretelling the future and sucking out intrusive objects.
Aspects of the life and ‘practice’ of a curer from the more Hinduised portion of the Nepalese Himalaya, who has come into contact with western medicine.
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