Love, Courtship and Marriage in Rural Bhutan
Author | : Dorji Penjore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Courtship |
ISBN | : 9789993623151 |
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Author | : Dorji Penjore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Courtship |
ISBN | : 9789993623151 |
Author | : Jelle J.P. Wouters |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000598586 |
The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.
Author | : Christina Willis Oko |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2019-08-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004409491 |
A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
Author | : Kelzang T. Tashi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0197669867 |
In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, Tashi investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to practice and engage with Bon, a religious practice that has survived over a millennium of impatience from a dominant Buddhist ecclesiastical structure. Against the backdrop of long-standing debates around practices unsystematically identified as 'bon', this book reframes the often stale and scholastic debates by providing a clear and succinct statement on how these practices should be conceived in the region. Tashi argues that the reasons for the tenacity of Bon practices and beliefs amid censures by the Buddhist priests are manifold and complex. While a significant reason for the persistence of Bon is the recency of formal Buddhist institutions in Goleng, he demonstrates that Bon beliefs are so deeply embedded in village social life that some Buddhists paradoxically feel it necessary to reach some kind of accommodation with Bon priests. Through an analysis of the relationship between Shamanic Bon and Buddhism, and the contemporary dynamics of Bhutanese society, this book tackles the longstanding concern of anthropology: cultural persistence and change. It discusses the mutual accommodation and attempted amalgamation of Buddhism and Bon, and offers fresh perspectives on the central distinguishing features of Great and Little Traditions.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 2005-06-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 030909528X |
The challenges for young people making the transition to adulthood are greater today than ever before. Globalization, with its power to reach across national boundaries and into the smallest communities, carries with it the transformative power of new markets and new technology. At the same time, globalization brings with it new ideas and lifestyles that can conflict with traditional norms and values. And while the economic benefits are potentially enormous, the actual course of globalization has not been without its critics who charge that, to date, the gains have been very unevenly distributed, generating a new set of problems associated with rising inequality and social polarization. Regardless of how the globalization debate is resolved, it is clear that as broad global forces transform the world in which the next generation will live and work, the choices that today's young people make or others make on their behalf will facilitate or constrain their success as adults. Traditional expectations regarding future employment prospects and life experiences are no longer valid. Growing Up Global examines how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries, and what the implications of these changes might be for those responsible for designing youth policies and programs, in particular, those affecting adolescent reproductive health. The report sets forth a framework that identifies criteria for successful transitions in the context of contemporary global changes for five key adult roles: adult worker, citizen and community participant, spouse, parent, and household manager.
Author | : Dorji Penjore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt in literature |
ISBN | : 9789993664635 |
Author | : Tashi Choden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Bhutan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tshering Cigay Dorji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karl Hanson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107031516 |
Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children's rights.
Author | : Lham Dorji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Bhutan |
ISBN | : |