Thierry Dodin 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 pp.

UPDATE: After gaining the permission of the editors, the articles from this volume are available as pdfs below. If any author does not want to have his or her article published here, please get in touch with us via email ( webmaster@ladakhstudies.org ) and we will remove the article.

Content and Introduction

• 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”

List of Contributors