Ekvall does a fine job of making the cultural traditions of a highland culture come alive in his survey of a society of nomadic pastoralists, aBrog Pa, in northeast ethnic Tibet, where ecology dominates their existence and prescribes their manner of living. Fields on the Hoof is a study of the complex interdependency of many factors: the influence of the high-altitude environment and its resources; the influence of Buddhism as it counters the survival of folk belief; the social system, culture, and personality the aBrog Pa share with other pastoral nomads; the adaptation of man to animal and animal to man.
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TIBET IS THE NAME the Western world has given to that high plateau which lies between 78-103 degrees east longitude and 27-39 degrees north latitude, thus placed north of the subcontinent of India and south of the deserts and mountains of central Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
high pasturage, tent wife, seasonal displacement, nomadic pastoralists, nomadic pastoralism, common cattle, soil lords, wild yak, modal personality, yak cows, herd management, tent family, altitude zone, livestock fields, soil fields Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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TIBET IS THE NAME the Western world has given to that high plateau which lies between 78-103 degrees east longitude and 27-39 degrees north latitude, thus placed north of the subcontinent of India and south of the deserts and mountains of central Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
high pasturage, tent wife, seasonal displacement, nomadic pastoralists, nomadic pastoralism, common cattle, soil lords, wild yak, modal personality, yak cows, herd management, tent family, altitude zone, livestock fields, soil fields Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal by Geoff Childs in Back Matter
- Barter, Exchange and Value: An Anthropological Approach by Caroline Humphrey on page 140
- A Theory of Religion by Rodney Stark in Back Matter
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