Book

The A Mdo Pa greater Tibetans: the socio-economic bases of the pastoral cultures of Inner Asia

Philosophische Fakultät der Universität Freiburg in der SchweizFreiburg, SwitzerlandPublished In 1948 • Pages:

By: Hermanns, Matthias, Schütze, Frieda.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a cultural-historical study of the people of AMDO Province (Tsinghai) in northeastern Tibet by a Roman Catholic missionary. The book begins with a description of the A MDO land and people. From there it continues into the domestic economy of the nomads, touching on matters such as diet, housing, clothing, weapons, and handicrafts. By far the greatest emphasis in the work is upon animal husbandry, concerning which the author is quite exhaustive, not only in the ethnographic descriptions, but in historical reconstructions of various kinds of animal breeding. These reconstructions are based on linguistic, archaeological and historical evidence according to the KULTURKREISLEHRE.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Culture summary
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Tibetans
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2010
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Asia
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Central Asia
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
Book
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Betty Potash; Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1961
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1935-1945
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
not specified
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tsinghai Province, Tibet
NotesAdditional notes
[by] Matthias Hermanns
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Freiburg Switzerland, 1948
Translation of: Die A Mdo Pa-Grosstibeter Die Sozial-Wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Hirtenkulturen Innerasiens
Translated from the German for Human Relations Area Files by Frieda Schntze
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
52023967
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Tibet (China)--Ethnology