Peace and conflict in Ladakh : the construction of a fragile web of order /
Long caught between powerful neighbours, Ladakh is a border region in the vast Indian nation state. This detailed, anthropological study traces the ways order has been created by, but also despite and in defiance of, the powerful external forces of religion, war, politics and wealth.
| Main Author: | Pirie, Fernanda, 1964- |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Series: |
Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 13. |
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| Online Access: |
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Peace and conflict in Ladakh. |
Table of Contents:
- Ladakh
- Village organisation
- Conflict in the village
- The realm of the spirits
- Losar
- The sacred social order
- Ethnographic Tibet
- Urban process and political change.