Tibetans who escaped the historian's net
Subtitle: studies in the social history of Tibetan societies / edited by Charles Ramble, Peter Schwieger, Alice Travers
Contributors: Schwieger, Peter, editor; Travers, Alice, editor
Publisher: Vajra Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kathmandu, Nepal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789937623100
Subjects: Civilization; Societies
Other titles: Studies in the social history of Tibetan societies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English ; includes some pssages in Tibetan with English translations (Tibetan in roman script)
Table of contents: title: Right there but still unnoticed :; title: information on Dgaʼ-Idan Pho-brang mi ser from archival material published in German(y)  -- Jeanne Bischoff; title: The role of the Ambans in the Dalai Lama government according to the Ten-Point Edict  -- Kalsang Norbu Gurung; title: In search of the Tibetan translators within the Manchu empire :; title: an attempt to go from the global to the local  -- Fabienne Jagou; title: On the edition, structure, and authorship of the Weizang Tongzhi  -- Liu Yuxuan; title: Sde-srid Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho's short remarks on ordeals in his Guidelines for Government Officials  -- Christoph Cüppers; title: An almost forgotten dGe lugs pa incarnation line as Manorial Lord in bKra shis ljongs, Central Tibet  -- Peter Schwieger; title: How to tame a wild monastic elephant :; title: Drepung monastery according to the great Fifth  -- Berthe Jansen; title: How should we define social status?; title: The study of "intermediate groups" in Central Tibet (1895-1959)  -- Alice Travers; title: Who were the Tibetan lawmakers?  -- Fernanda Pirie; title: Recapturing runaways, or administration through contract :; title: the 1830 covenant (Gan rgya) on Kotapa Tax exiles and Sikkimese border regions  -- Saul Mullard; title: Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries  -- Astrid Hovden; title: Hidden Himalayan transcripts :; title: strategies of social opposition in Mustang (Nepal), 19th-20th centuries -- Charles Ramble.