Nomads of Eastern Tibet" by Rinzin Thargyal

This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege.
Based upon extensive ethnographic interviews, this study yields a nuanced analysis of the most crucial and controversial relationship in premodern Tibetan societies, namely, that ensuing between local lords and their dependents. It convincingly readdresses anthropological debates and political claims about feudalism or serfdom in Tibetan societies from a perspective that is more sensitive to local historical, social, and economic contexts.







TABLE OF CONTENTS
Author’s Preface
Editor’s Preface
List of Illustrations
Editor’s Introduction: The Anthropology of Tibet
and the First Tibetan Anthropologists
by Toni Huber
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two The Genesis of Zilphukhog
Chapter Three Labour Service
Chapter Four Animal Husbandry
Chapter Five Trade and Peripheral Incomes
Chapter Six Strategic Transhumance
Chapter Seven Household Organization
Chapter Eight Marriage and Kinship
Chapter Nine Birth and Death
Chapter Ten The Political Environment
Chapter Eleven Social Organization
Bibliography
Index