Mapping Amdo
Subtitle: dynamics of change
By: edited by Jarmila Ptáčková and Adrian Zenz
Series: Archiv orientální. Supplementa -- X; Archív orientální -- 10.
Publisher: Oriental Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Prague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9788085425666
Subjects: Amdo (Tibetan people); Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mapping Amdo : people and places in an ongoing transition  -- Emilia Róża Sulek and Jarmila Ptáčková; title: Ecological change on the Tibetan plateau and the human interface : pastoralists as agents and victims of environmental impact  -- Andreas Gruschke; title: Mapping tertiary graduate student trends and advertised public sector recruitment in the Amdo and Kham Tibetan regions  -- Adrian Senz; title: The abstract state : dilemmas of sovereignty and scale among Tibetans in China  -- Charlene Makley; title: The warrior in the mountain and his people : Labtse mountain cult and its social significance in an Amdo Tibetan village  -- Rahel Tsering; title: 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; title: Descent and houses in Rebong (Reb gong) : group formation and rules of recruitment among eastern Tibetan Tsho ba  -- Reinier Langelaar; title: Gtsang A rig : a Tibetan tribe classified as Mongol  -- Ute Wallenböck; title: The Nyen Collection (Gnyan 'bum) and Shenrab Miwo of Nam -- Daniel Berounský.