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Nomads of western TibetBook 1990 • Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Beall, Cynthia M
Tibetans • Asia > Central Asia
This is primarily a study of post-collectivization era pastoral life in Western Tibet, documenting resurgence of local cultural and class system. It includes some history of the collectivization and cultural revolution periods. Over one hundred photo...Change and continuity in nomadic pastoralism on the western Tibetan plateauarticle 1991 • Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Beall, Cynthia M.
Tibetans • Asia > Central Asia
This article examines the effect of post-collective reform policies on western Tibet pastoral nomads. The authors report how nomads returned to the traditional ways of pastoral subsistence which includes reassertion of the former religico-cultural sy...The changing world of Mongolia's nomadsBook 1994 • Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Beall, Cynthia M.
Mongolia • Asia > Central Asia
The researchers spent three summers among Mongolian herders living in the Altai Mountains. Their text, supplemented with many photographs, conveys some of the feel of contemporary nomadic pastoral way of life. The authors also discuss the effects of ...