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| himalayan buddhist villages: Himalayan Buddhist Villages John Crook, Henry Osmaston, 1994 |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Himalayan Buddhist Villages John Hurrell Crook, 1991 |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Mountain Environments and Communities Don Funnell, Romola Parish, 2005-08-18 Mountain Environments and Communities explains the background physical environment and then explores the environmental and social dimensions of mountain regions. This critical review of the concepts currently employed in mountain research, draws upon a wide range of examples from developed and developing countries. The dynamics of mountain life are described through both historical accounts of village-based systems and examples of the contemporary impact of global capital and sustainable development strategies. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Rhythms of a Himalayan Village Hugh R. Downs, 1980 |
| himalayan buddhist villages: An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy Andrea S. Wiley, 2004-03-22 Andrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude populations, smaller still than those in sea level regions. Factors such as hypoxia, dietary patterns, the burden of women's work, gender, infectious diseases, seasonality, and use of local health resources all affect a newborn's birth weight and raise the likelihood of infant mortality. An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy is unique in that it makes use of the methods of human biology but strongly emphasizes the ethnographic context that gives human biological measures their meaning. It is an example of a new genre of anthropological work: 'ethnographic human biology'. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Village Development in North-East India Komol Singha, 2009 Contributed articles presented in a seminar, held during 14-15 Sept. 2007, at St. Joseph's College, Jhakama. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors Anna Balikci, 2008-01-01 This careful study of the co-existence over time of Buddhism and shamanism among the Lhopo (Bhutia) people of Sikkim sheds new light on their supposedly hostile relationship. It examines the working relationships between Buddhist lamas and practitioners of bon, taking into consideration the sacred history of the land as well as its more recent political and economic transformation. Their interactions are presented in terms of the contexts in which lamas and shamans meet, these being rituals of the sacred land, of the individual and household, and of village and state. Village lamas and shamans are shown to share a conceptual view of reality which is at the base of their amiable coexistence. In contrast to the hostility which, the recent literature suggests, characterizes the lama-shaman relationship, their association reveals that the real confrontation occurs when village Buddhism is challenged by its conventional counterpart. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: The Frontier Complex Kyle J. Gardner, 2021-01-21 Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Buddhist Himalayas Olivier Föllmi, Matthieu Ricard, Danielle Föllmi, 2002 This book invites the reader on a journey to an exotic land and into one’s heart and soul. The pictures are accompanied throughout by contributions from nineteen eminent specialists on the region, who discuss the culture, customs, politics and faith of the Himalayan world; past and present. Reflecting not only the cycle of human existence but also the history of the Himalayas, this lavish volume offers an unparalleled insight into Himalayan Buddhism in the 21st century. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: The Authority of Experience John Pickering, 2013-12-02 This collection of writings presents contemporary views on the integration of Buddhism in the West. Over the past few decades Buddhism has deepened its presence in the West and as a result teachings and practices are becoming integrated with those of Western psychology in a more productive way. The decline of mechanism and positivism offers new opportunities to bring together Western Buddhist views of the mind and its relationship to its surroundings. Written by psychologists and scholars, the essays discuss many of the difficult questions raised by Buddhism’s increased presence. In particular the issue of the balance between authenticity and accessibility is examined. Buddhist traditions are often perceived as inaccessible and too firmly fixed to a cultural framework with some people, especially women, left feeling alienated and undervalued. However, by responding to this by attempting to synthesise Buddhism with the values of contemporary culture can lead to doubts about authenticity and dilution. Examining these issues and many more, the contributors seek to bring Buddhism into a realistic and informed relationship with contemporary Western thought. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Chapters from life of Tibetans Petr Jandáček, Martin Hanker, Aleš Rýznar, Zbyněk Mucha, 2019-11-01 E-kniha Chapters from Lives of Tibetans byla napsána magisterskými a doktorskými studenty tibetanistiky jako přehled, respektive učební pomůcka pro bakalářské studenty, kteří se poprvé setkávají s výukou tibetských kulturních reálií. Jejím cílem je stručně rekapitulovat život Tibeťana od narození až do smrti a při tom se zaměřit na některé důležité aspekty tibetské kultury. V jedenácti kapitolách popisuje porod a péči o děti, přechodové rituály včetně svatby, rodinný život, zaměstnání, zábavu, příklady výročních a náboženských rituálů, smrt a pohřební rituály. Kromě toho chce publikace seznámit čtenáře s tibetskými termíny užívanými v daném kontextu a v literatuře, a dát tím náměty pro další četbu a konverzaci v tibetštině. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Historical Dictionary of Tibet John Powers, David Templeman, 2020-10-22 Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Second Edition contains a chronology, a glossary, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Water and Sacred Architecture Anat Geva, 2023-05-25 This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion centers on two levels of this relationship: how water influenced the sacredness of buildings across history and different religions; and how sacred architecture expressed the spiritual meaning of water. The volume deliberately offers original material on various unique contextual and design aspects of water and sacred architecture, rather than an attempt to produce a historic chronological analysis on the topic or focusing on a specific geographical region. As such, this unique volume adds a new dimension to the study of sacred architecture. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as, rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material and place-making, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and future digital/cyber context of water and sacredness. All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings. These examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality, and its spiritual values. The book will be of interest to architects, historians, environmentalists, archaeologists, religious scholars, and preservationists. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Tibetan Houses Peter Herrle, 2017-09-11 The region of the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan plateau is known for its unique and characteristic vernacular architecture and housing culture which is slowly but surely disappearing. The first part of the book analyses 19 traditional houses in the region that respond in diverse ways to the specifics of their location and local climate. The second part presents a comparative study of the construction elements – walls, roof and façades – using photographs and hand-drawn construction details. The newly produced scale drawings provide an excellent basis for comparative review. Detailed plans, atmospheric photographs and informative texts take the reader on a journey through a fascinating building culture. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Modern Ladakh Martijn van Beek, Fernanda Pirie, 2008-07-31 The modern history of Ladakh has been profoundly shaped by influences from South Asia and beyond. In detailed empirical case-studies the contributors document and analyse change and continuities in this region brought about by colonialism, independence and modernisation. In an introductory review essay highlighting emerging themes and continuing debates in the scholarship on Ladakh, the editors argue for the need to situate Ladakh in an Indian and South Asian context, while also taking into account its cultural, linguistic and historical ties with Tibet. Studies from the neighbouring (sub)regions of Kargil, Ladakh, Zangskar and Baltistan are brought together to make an important contribution to the anthropological and sociological literature on development and modernity, as well as to Ladakh, Tibetan and South Asian studies. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Shamanic Trance and Amnesia Ina Rösing, Sonam Norboo Spurkhapa, 2006 |
| himalayan buddhist villages: The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement Farhan Karim, 2018-05-11 Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and construct an egalitarian global society. The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement offers a critical enquiry of socially engaged architecture’s current context characterized by socio-economic inequity, climate change, war, increasing global poverty, microfinance, the evolving notion of professionalism, the changing conception of public, and finally the growing academic interest in re-visioning the social role of architecture. Organized around case studies from the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, Germany, Australia, Taiwan, and Japan the book documents the most important recent developments in the field. By examining diverse working methods and philosophies of socially engaged architecture, the handbook shows how socially engaged architecture is entangled in the global politics of poverty, reconstruction of the public sphere, changing role of the state, charity, and neoliberal urbanism. The book presents debates around the issue of whether architecture actually empowers the participators and alleviates socio-economic exclusion or if it instead indirectly sustains an exploitive capitalism. Bringing together a range of theories and case studies, this companion offers a platform to facilitate future lines of inquiry in education, research, and practice. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World Jonathan Mingle, 2015-03-24 High in the Himalayan valley of Zanskar in northwest India sits a village as isolated as the legendary Shangri-La. Long fed by runoff from glaciers and lofty snowfields, Kumik—a settlement of thirty nine mud brick homes—has survived and thrived in one of the world's most challenging settings for a thousand years. But now its people confront an existential threat: chronic, crippling drought, which leaves the village canal dry and threatens to end their ancient culture of farming and animal husbandry. Fire and Ice weaves together the story of Kumik's inspiring response to this calamity with the story of black carbon. Black carbon from inefficient fires - the particulate residue that makes soot dark - is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. It's also a key ingredient of the air pollution that public health experts regard as humanity's greatest environmental health risk worldwide: soot-laden smoke from household hearth fires and outdoor sources combine to kill over seven million people around the world every year. Jonathan Mingle describes the joys and struggles of daily life in the Zanskar Valley, where villagers are buffeted by powerful environmental and economic forces, while also tracing black carbon's dark fingerprints outward from Kumik and around the world. Mingle investigates its impacts on snow, ice, and water from Mt. Everest to California, and the silent health epidemic it fuels from New York to New Delhi. Combining cultural history, detailed reportage, climate and energy science and dramatic storytelling, Fire and Ice is a profound examination of the global challenges of averting climate chaos and lifting billions out of energy poverty and water scarcity. Can Kumik's people come together to reinvent fire, harness what remains of their life-sustaining ice, and reinvigorate their traditions of solidarity, in time to save themselves? Can the rest of us rise to the same challenge? Fire and Ice connects these questions with the work of enterprising scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and activists around the world, in a narrative that combines mythology, reason, humor, persistence, and hope in a race against a global clock. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Land Resources H.S. Sharma, S. Padmaja, 2020-01-01 This is the third volume in the series, The State of Natural and Human Resources of India’ sponsored by the National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI). As a first step in this direction, the Association resolved to publish compendiums putting together articles, reports and other materials relevant to the theme in a manner that would present a total and comprehensive scenario of the state of natural and human resources of India. However, in the present volume original unpublished papers have been included on general land use, geomorphology, land degradation and models of mapping. The general editor of the series, Professor R.P. Misra, is a senior geographer, Bhoogol Ratna, and Fellow of NAGI. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Recent Research on Ladakh 6 Henry Osmaston, International Association for Ladakh Studies, 1997 The International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) was formed to provide contacts between all who are interested in the study of Ladakh to organise colloquia and to publish the proceedings and to issue a newsletter Ladakh Studies. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Environmental Change and Development in Ladakh, Indian Trans-Himalaya Blaise Humbert-Droz, Juliane Dame, Tashi Morup, 2024-01-01 The Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh has witnessed important changes linked to its geo-strategic importance, the rapid development of means of communication with other parts of India, socio-economic transformation processes and the effects of climate change. The sixteen chapters document these key changes, ranging from melting glaciers and extreme weather events to the exponential increase in infrastructure, tourist and military activities. The book examines the impact these changes are having on the environment and on the socio-economics and identity of Ladakhi communities. The book also attempts to evaluate the likely direction of future changes, identify some of the main environmental challenges faced by Ladakh in the 21st century, and provide perspectives for sustainable development of the high mountain region. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Marriage in Human Society Manis Kumar Raha, 2023-01-01 Marriage as an institution was introduced among the human beings possible thousands of years ago. Human being possible started with promiscuity and then moved to the structured forms of marriages. It took, no doubt, many-many years. From one form of marriage is human being diversified marriage form into several. During last couple of century or more several changes have taken place in marriage pattern, forms, methods, ceremonies etc. Still during recent decades only some anthropologists and other social scientists have showed much interest to study marriage. These Three Volumes deals with marriage in different parts of the world and its different forms and types, in great details. But much emphasis has been given on different multiple marriages particularly polyandry, its sub-types, and regions of origin and development of polyandry as practiced in different countries including India. Emphasis has also been given on the question of determination and allocation of paternity and decline of polyandry and some other multiple marriages. In this study special stress has been given on some of the marriage, that is, sexuality, reproductively and paternity. Also provide very good idea about different aspects of marriage and its types and forms. The publisher and author of this book will be extremely happy if the reader considers this book as an important contribution to anthropology and other social sciences. These volumes are useful for all those who are interested in Sociology, Tribal Studies, Anthropology and other Social Sciences. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Peace and Conflict in Ladakh Fernanda Pirie, 2007 This anthropological study of Ladakh analyses the means by which small communities create spaces of order amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity. In doing so it also filling a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on Tibetan law. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism Martin A. Mills, 2013-11-05 This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in the Ladakh region of North-West India and of the role of tantric ritual in the formation and maintenance of traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet. Containing detailed descriptions and analyses of monastic ritual, the work builds up a picture of Tibetan tantric traditions as they interact with more localised understandings of bodily identity and territorial cosmology, to produce a substantial re-interpretation of the place of monks as ritual performers and peripheral householders in Ladakh. The work also examines the central and indispensable role of incarnate lamas, such as the Dalai Lama, in the religious life of Tibetan Buddhists. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Everyday Life in South Asia Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb, 2010 An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities , 2008-05-31 This is the first major publication in the West to study modernity and its impact on contemporary Tibet. Based on field work by researchers from the fields of anthropology, sociology, environmental science, literature, art and linguistics, it presents essays on education, economics, childbirth, environment, caste, pop music, media and painting in Tibetan communities today. The findings emerge from studies carried out in Ladakh, Golok, Lhasa, Xining, Shigatse and other areas of the Tibetan world. It will provide important and sometimes surprising results for students of Tibet, China, Himalayan studies, as well as an important contribution to our understandings of modernity and development in the modern world. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar, 2008-05-31 This book, the first scholarly publication in the West to provide detailed documentation of modern life in contemporary Tibet, presents the cutting-edge field work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying caste, pop music, media, painting, education, economics, childbirth and environment in Tibetan communities today. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: How Religion Evolved Robin Dunbar, 2022 In How Religion Evolved, Robin Dunbar explores the evolution of religion from the earliest practices to the world religions familiar to us today. Examining religion's origins, social functions, its effects on the brain and body, and its place in the modern era, Dunbar offers a fascinating and far-reaching analysis of the quintessentially human impulse to believe. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Human Population Dynamics Helen Macbeth, Paul Collinson, 2002-06-20 In human populations, biological, social, spatial, ecological and economic aspects of existence are inextricably linked, demanding a holistic approach to their study. Many undergraduate and postgraduate courses now emphasise the value of studying human populations using theoretical frameworks and methodologies from different traditional disciplines. Human Population Dynamics introduces such frameworks and methodologies whilst demonstrating how changes in human population structure can be addressed from several different academic perspectives. As such, the book contains contributions from world-renowned researchers in demography, social and biological anthropology, genetics, biology, sociology, ecology, history and human geography. In particular, the contributors emphasise the lability of many population structures and boundaries, as viewed from their area of expertise. This text is aimed at undergraduate students, graduates and academic researchers from any academic discipline which considers human populations. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Freedom in Captivity Radhika Gupta, 2023-05-11 How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Freedom in Captivity examines the affective attachments, political imaginaries, and ethical claims-making among the Shia Muslims of Kargil. In contrast to calls for freedom in the Kashmir Valley, Shias on the frontiers of Kashmir have sought belonging to India. Yet they do not entirely succumb to its hegemonic ideological boundaries. Departing from the dominant focus on physical cross-border mobility, this book is an invitation to reimagine borderlands as cartographies of ideas, cutting across spatial scales. Based on original ethnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2021, this monograph offers a unique long durée insight into the lives of people residing at the intersections of the biggest states in Asia. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: 1994 Massimo Mastrogregori, 2013-05-08 Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Mountain Environments Romola Parish, 2014-06-03 This book breaks the ground in Geographical texts by transcending a strictly regional or topical focus. It presents the opportunities and constraints that mountains and their resources offer to local and global populations; the impacts of environmental and economic change, development and globalisation on mountain environments. Part of the Ecogeography series edited by Richard Hugget |
| himalayan buddhist villages: The Competition Paradigm Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, 2003 This insightful book explores the question of competition and effects it has on individuals, organizations, and society as a whole. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
| himalayan buddhist villages: High Mountain Pastoralism in Northern Pakistan Eckart Ehlers, Hermann Kreutzmann, 2000 The strength of the book lies in this differentiated analysis which is based on extensive empirical research. Several chapters challenge conventional modernization theories, and the authors' intimate connection to their data makes for an unusually stimulating and pleasurable read. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Being a Buddhist Nun Kim Gutschow, 2009-07-01 They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Climate-Adaptive Design in High Mountain Villages Carey Clouse, 2020-10-15 Drawing from the unique context and climate of the Himalaya, this book highlights several innovative design interventions, shaped by a myriad of social, cultural, environmental, and political factors that have been employed in villages to combat climate change. Climate-Adaptive Design in High Mountain Villages focuses on Ladakh, an outpost on the front lines of climate change, and the region’s creative responses to the pressing issues of food security, water management, energy efficiency, design aid, and material resources in the Anthropocene. These strategies – from artificial glaciers to tree armor – showcase the breadth of creative solutions already underway. In doing so, the research addresses the broader concept of climate-adaptive design and how it informs the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. An ideal read for academics, researchers, and students in these fields, this book presents a focused investigation into climate-adaptive strategies that could provide transferable solutions for the rest of the world. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Rendering Houses in Ladakh Sophie Day, 2023-05-30 Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth ‘house portraits’ are selected for the insight they provide into major regional developments, based on the author’s extended engagement since 1981. Most of these houses are Buddhist and associated with the town of Leh. Drawing on both image and text, collaborative methods for assembling material show the intricate relationships between people and places over the life course. Innovative methods for recording and archiving such as ‘storyboards’ are developed to frame different views of the house. This approach raises analytical questions about the composition of life within and beyond storyboards, offering new ways to understand a region that intrigues specialists and non-specialists alike. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Healing at the Periphery Laurent Pordié, Stephan Kloos, 2021-10-18 India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume examines the crucial moment of crisis and transformation that occurred in the early 2000s to offer insights into the beginnings of Tibetan medicine's professionalization, industrialization, and official recognition in India and elsewhere. Based on fine-grained ethnographic studies in Ladakh, Zangskar, Sikkim, and the Darjeeling Hills, Healing at the Periphery asks how the dynamics of capitalism, social change, and the encounter with biomedicine affect small communities on the fringes of modern India, and, conversely, what local transformations of Tibetan medicine tell us about contemporary society and health care in the Himalayas and the Tibetan world. Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig, Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guérin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordié |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Daughters of Hariti Santi Rozario, Geoffrey Samuel, 2003-09-02 Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing. |
| himalayan buddhist villages: Human Evolutionary Psychology Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar, John Lycett, 2002-02-17 Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior and psychology. Human Evolutionary Psychology is a comprehensive, balanced, and readable introduction to this burgeoning field. It combines a sophisticated understanding of the basics of evolutionary theory with a solid grasp of empirical case studies. Covering not only such traditional subjects as kin selection and mate choice, this text also examines more complex understandings of marriage practices and inheritance rules and the way in which individual action influences the structure of societies and aspects of cultural evolution. It critically assesses the value of evolutionary explanations to humans in both modern Western society and traditional preindustrial societies. And it fairly presents debates within the field, identifying areas of compatibility among sometimes competing approaches. Combining a broad scope with the more in-depth knowledge and sophisticated understanding needed to approach the primary literature, this text is the ideal introduction to the exciting and rapidly expanding study of human evolutionary psychology. |
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More than 100 peaks exceeding elevations of 7,200 m (23,600 ft) above sea level lie in the Himalayas. The Himalayas abut on or cross territories of six countries: Nepal, China, Pakistan, …
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The Himalayas, a Sanskrit term meaning ‘abode of the snow’, is a breathtaking mountain range that stretches across five nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. This mighty …
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The Himalayas are an Asian mountain range, which includes the countries of Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Tibet, India, and Bhutan. The Himalayan mountain range includes Mt. Everest, …
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Of the fifteen highest mountain peaks in the World, nine are in the Nepali Himalayas. The word "Himalaya" means House of Snow in Sanskrit, an old south asian language. North of the …
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The Himalayan Mountain Range is located in southeast Asia, between China and India. This imposing range forms a natural barrier in Asia, creating a divide between the plains of the …
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Dec 12, 2024 · Seated between the Indo-Gangetic Plains and the high Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas constitute one of the most majestic mountain ranges in the world. Much more than …
Himalayas - Wikipedia
More than 100 peaks exceeding elevations of 7,200 m (23,600 ft) above sea level lie in the Himalayas. The Himalayas abut on or cross territories of six countries: Nepal, China, Pakistan, …
Himalayas | Definition, Location, History, Countries, Mountains, …
Jun 7, 2025 · Himalayas, great mountain system of Asia forming a barrier between the Plateau of Tibet to the north and the alluvial plains of the Indian subcontinent to the south. The Himalayas …
The Himalayas - WorldAtlas
Jun 5, 2025 · The Himalayas are the greatest mountain system in Asia and one of the planet’s youngest mountain ranges, that extends for more than 2,400km across the nations of Bhutan, …
The Himalayas – Guide To The Himalayan Range - Mountain IQ
May 5, 2023 · The Himalayan Range has an average elevation of 6,100m. It is home to many of the Earth’s highest peaks, including over 50 mountains exceeding 7,200m, including 10 of the …
The Himalayas - Mountain Field Guide
The Himalayas, a Sanskrit term meaning ‘abode of the snow’, is a breathtaking mountain range that stretches across five nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. This mighty …
How Were the Himalayas Formed? (And Are They Still Growing)
The Himalayas are an Asian mountain range, which includes the countries of Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Tibet, India, and Bhutan. The Himalayan mountain range includes Mt. Everest, …
Himalayas - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of the fifteen highest mountain peaks in the World, nine are in the Nepali Himalayas. The word "Himalaya" means House of Snow in Sanskrit, an old south asian language. North of the …
Himalayas - Encyclopedia of World Geography
THE HIMALAYAN mountain region, located between INDIA and TIBET, has the world's highest peaks. It stretches from the INDUS RIVER in the west to the Brahamaputra in the east and …
The Himalayan Mountains: Everything You Need to Know
The Himalayan Mountain Range is located in southeast Asia, between China and India. This imposing range forms a natural barrier in Asia, creating a divide between the plains of the …
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Dec 12, 2024 · Seated between the Indo-Gangetic Plains and the high Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas constitute one of the most majestic mountain ranges in the world. Much more than …
