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Change and continuity in nomadic pastoralism on the western Tibetan plateau
Nomadic peoples • 28 • Published In 1991 • Pages: 105-123
By: Goldstein, Melvyn C., Beall, Cynthia M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 system and rise of rich and poor households.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Real property
- Mercantile business
- Wholesale marketing
- Serfdom and peonage
- Political movements
- 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
- article
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1981-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Phala, Tibet
- NotesAdditional notes
- Melvyn C Goldstein and Cynthia M Beall
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89655644
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tibet (China)--Ethnology