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Pastures of Change - Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Pastures of Change - Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 10
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This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change
in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau.
Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of
local nomadic pastoralists, international development
organisations, and Chinese government policies, the book argues
that careful analysis and comparison of the different
epistemologies and norms about "change" are vital to any critical
appraisal of developments - often contested - on the grasslands of
Eastern Tibet. Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is
dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the
phenomenological experience of mobility. These pastoralists have
adapted to many changes in their social, political and
environmental contexts over time. From the earliest historically
recorded systems of segmentary lineage to the incorporation first
into local fiefdoms and then into the Chinese state (of both
Nationalist and Communist governments), Tibetan pastoralists have
maintained their way of life, complemented by interactions with
"the outside world". Rapid changes brought about by an
intensification of interactions with the outside world call into
question the sustained viability of a nomadic way of life,
particularly as pastoralists themselves sell their herds and settle
into towns. This book probes how we can more clearly understand
these changes by looking specifically at one particular area of
high-altitude grasslands in the Tibetan Plateau.
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