People of the Himalayas
Subtitle: ecology, culture, development and change
By: [edited by] K.C. Mahanta
Series: Journal of human ecology. Special issue -- no. 6; Journal of human ecology (Delhi, India) -- no. 6
Publisher: Kamla-Raj Enterprises
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Delhi, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Human ecology; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human ecology and developmental changes in the Himalayas during the Pleistocene Epoch  -- Asok K. Ghosh, Arun Kandar and Subhra Bhattacharyya; title: Landscape dynamics and sustainable development in the northwestern Tibetan plateau  -- Zhang Baiping; title: Contribution to the knowledge of the Himalaya in ecological and social sciences by the French scholars  -- Corneille Jest; title: Oil based industries in Assam and pollution problems  -- N.N. Dass; title: Casualty to environment  -- K.C. Mahanta; title: Geoenvironmental studies of the River Jhanji, Assam  -- P. Kotoky ... [et al.]; title: Glacier outburst floods threatening the settlement Shimshal, north-west Karakorum  -- Lasafam Iturrizaga; title: Land degradation in Arunachal Pradesh -- S.C. Goswami.; title: Conservation of biodiversity and eco-development in north-eastern region of India  -- T.C. Sarma and S.C. Nath; title: Management of biophysical resources in agropastoralism at the high altitude village, Senge, Kameng Himalaya  -- Zahid Husain; title: Influence of karyotypes on the ecotype formation of Chilli, Capsicum annuum L.  -- P.K. Borua and Alakananda Baruah; title: Ecological impact of eucalyptus on floristic composition and phytosociological studies in man-made ecosystem of the Brahmaputra Valley  -- Ajit Kumar Bordoloi; title: The Tamtas, coppersmiths, of central Himalaya  -- Maheswar P. Joshi; title: Assam, ecology and change in historical perspective  -- S.L. Baruah; title: Tibetan migration and early state formation in the Brahmaputra Valley  -- D. Nath; title: Culture of friendship and militarism of the Gurkhas of Nepal  -- Bharat Ch. Kalita; title: Kinship groups and history in Suru, Ladakh -- Nicola Grist.; title: Shifting cultivation and forest in north east India  -- Babul Roy and A.N.M. Irshad Ali; title: Shifting cultivation among the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh  -- Asham Borang; title: The human settlements and health status in Sikkim  -- Veena Bhasin; title: The Riti-Bhagya system in western Nepal  -- Mary M. Cameron; title: Ecology and health status of the people of Ladakh  -- Veena Bhasin and M.K. Bhasin; title: Ecology and economy of an eastern Himalayan tribe, the Apatanis  -- Jogada Phukan; title: The mystic Kinnaur in the Himalayas  -- U.K. Banerjee and Shubhra Banerjee; title: Loss of iodine from iodised salt during traditional way of storage in a rural set-up of Assam  -- S.K. Sharma and J. Mahanta; title: Skillful art of weaving  -- Indira Barua and Bornali Das; title: Impact of the Central Sector Jhum Control Programme in the hill areas of Assam  -- Girindra Nath Das; title: An account of the plants used by the Mishings of Assam as vegetables  -- C.L. Boissya and D. Kalita; title: Family among the Sherpa of west Bengal  -- Palash Chandra Coomar and Manis Kumar Raha; title: Ecology of the Loktak Lake of Manipur and its floating Phoom hut dwellers -- K. Saratchandra Singh.; title: The Pangchen-pa  -- Bibhash Dhar; title: Incidence of nasophyryngeal cancer in the north eastern states of India  -- A. Datta and R. Handique; title: Ramie, the fibre from the east  -- Niloy K. Das; title: The collapse of Indo-Tibetan trade and its impact on the demographic structure of border area  -- D.K. Dube and Harjit Singh; title: Problems in educating the Gaddis  -- Veena Bhasin; title: The War Khasi of Meghalaya  -- R. Khongsdier; title: Declining youth dormitory  -- C.J. Sonowal; title: Conserving livestock genetic resources  -- Hans Raj Negi and Madhav Gadgil; title: Citrus wealth of the north eastern Himalayas and its port harvest fungal deteriorations  -- Paran Baruah ... [et al.]; title: Traversing the Karakorams  -- Charles S. Haines; title: Effects of socio-cultural factors on fertility and mortality among the Oraons of Assam  -- Sarthak Sengupta and Arundhati Gogoi; title: ChangingLepcha habitat in Dzongu, north Sikkim -- Rip Roshina Gowloog.