Dodin, Thierry, and Heinz Räther, eds.1997. Recent Research on Ladakh 7. Proceedings of the 7th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies, Bonn/St.Augustin, 12-15 June 1995. Ulmer Kulturantropologische Schriften Band 9. Ulm: Universität Ulm. ISBN 3 930983 06 0. 496 pages.
Available from: Ms. Sylvia Gray, C/O Abteilung Anthropologie, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany. Price: DM 45 (paper)
 

Contents:

Ravina Aggarwal - Haunted Histories: Experimental Ethnography and Feminist Fiction in the Marketplace of Leh

Martijn van Beek - The Importance of Being Tribal. Or: the Impossibility of Being Ladakhis

Martijn van Beek & Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen - No Present without Past: the 1989 Agitation in Ladakh

Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen - Early Modern Buddhism in Ladakh: on the Construction of Buddhist Ladakhi Identity and its Consequences

John Bray - Ladakhi and Bhutanese Enclaves in Tibet

Jürgen Clemens - Resource Management in Astor (Gilgit Wazarat) since the Partition of Kashmir. Natural Setting, Utilization Rights and Modern Impacts on Alpine Pastures and Forests

Andreas Dittmann - Ethnic Groups and Bazaar Economy in Baltistan

Pascale Dollfus - La ville de Leh au XIXème siècle: une oasis au carrefour de l'Inde, du Tibet et de l'Asie centrale

Nicky Grist - Kinship Groups and History in Suru - Ladakh

Kim Gutschow - A Study of 'Wind Disorder' or Madness in Zangskar, India

Reinhard Herdick - The Old Village Centre of Lamayuru in West Ladakh: an analysis of spatial ordering of architectural and socio-cultural structures

Michael Khoo - Preliminary Remarks Concerning Solar Observation, Solar Calendars, and Festivals in Ladakh and the Western Himalaya

P.J. Marczell - William Moorcroft's Pioneering Memorandum to the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the Letters, Writing, Language and Culture of Tibet and its Vicinity

Gudrun Meier - The Moravian Church's Educational Work in Lahul, Kinnaur and Ladakh 1856-1994

Martin Mills - The Religion of Locality: Local Area Gods and the Characterisation of Tibetan Buddhism

P. Namgyal - Ladakh: a Micro-Minority Community

Isabelle Riaboff - Les lha, une catégorie Zanskari à géométrie variable. Ou, que sont les dieux devenus?

Janet Rizvi - Leh to Yarkand: travelling the trans-Karakorum trade route

Ursula Sagaster - Women in a Changing Society: Baltistan 1992

Tsering Samphel - Zorawar Singh, Tshultim Nyima and the End of the Ladakhi Monarchy

Peter Schwieger - Power and Territory in the Kingdom of Ladakh

Nawang Tsering Shakspo - The Role of Incarnate Lamas in Buddhist Tradition: a Brief Survey of Bakula Rinpoche's Previous Incarnations
Abdul Ghani Sheikh - Ladakh's Relations with Central Asia

Smriti Srinivas - Witch Possession in Nubra Valley: the analysis of a case

Tashi Stobdan - Reflections on the Religious, Political and Economic aspects of Stok 'Jagir'

Sonam Wangyal - Political Evolution in Post-Independence Ladakh