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 Schweiz • Freiburg, Switzerland • Published In 1948 • Pages:
By: Hermanns, Matthias, Sch¨tze, Frieda.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Betty Potash; Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1961
- Field Date
- 1935-1945
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Tsinghai Province, Tibet
- 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
- LCCN
- 52023967
- LCSH
- Tibet (China)--Ethnology