Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya, September 21-28 1990 at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich / editors Charles Ramble, Martin Brauen.

Includes bibls.

Contents: Hierarchy and complementarity in Newar eating arrangements / Michael Allen; Shakti Yogamaya: a tradition of dissent in Nepal / Barbara Nimri Aziz; Contesting hierarchy: on gambling as an authoratative resource in Tibetan refugee society / Marcia Calkowski ; The social and religious identity of the Tibetan Bonpos / Krystyna Cech; Anthropology of the Nepal Himalaya: a critical appraisal / Dilli R. Dahal; Gangla Tshechu, Beyul Khenbalung: pilgrimage to hidden valleys, sacred mountains and springs of life water in southern Tibet and eastern Nepal / Hildegard Diemberger; The Tibetan plateau: one of the homes of early man / Gelek; Muslim kinship and marriage in Ladakh / Nicola Grist; From "British Naturalism" to abstract modern painting in Nepal / Susanne von der Heide; Remarks on the orientation of the large stupas in the Kathmandu Valley: a discussion of principles of lunar ordering / Reinhard Herdick; Agricultural labour recruitment among the Newars and other groups in the sub-Himalayan areas / Hiroshi Ishii; Thang-Stong-Rgyal-Po: a Leonardo of Tibet / Wolf Kahlen; The wind-horse and the well being of man / Samten G. Karmay; The ethnic groups of Balistan / Abbas Kazmi; Himalayan frontier trade: Newar diaspora merchants and Buddhism / Todd T. Lewis; Charnel ground traditions in Tibet: some remarks and observations / Andrea Loseries; Shamanic belief among nomads in northern Tibet / Ma Lihua; Flatter, promise, threaten, kill: a discursive analysis of Shamanic mantar / Gregory G. Maskrinec; Culture and the transformation of suffering among the Gurungs of Nepal / Ernestine L. McHugh; Sammlungen der Missionare der Herrnhuter Brüder-Mission aus Ladakh: inhalt und standorte / Gudrun Meier; Is there Tibetan culture(s) without Buddhism / Beatrice Diamond Miller; Complimentary and hirarchical aspects of Brahman-Chetri social structure / Michael Mühlich; Culturally appropriate development: an anthropological study of villages in eastern Nepal / Rohit Kumar Nepali; Drongo / Michael Oppitz; Blood and Bohisattvas: sacrifice among the Newar Buddhists of Nepal / Bruce McCoy Owens; The Nepalese Durga-Puja festival or displaying military supremacy on ritual occasions / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka; Rule by play in southern Mustang / Charles Ramble; The Central Asian Archive in Bonn and the Catalogue of the Tibetan and Mongolian culture / Hans Roth; Observations made during the month of Muharram 1989, in Baltistan / Ursula Sagaster; Shamanism, Bon and tibetan religion / Geoffrey Samuel; Inducing trance: on the training of Ladakh oracle healers / Amelie Schenk; Who marries whom and why among the Khumbo / Christian Schicklgruber; Sanskritisation and environmental perception among Tibeto-Burman speaking groups / Klaus Seeland; Caste societies in the state of Nepal: a historical perspective / Prayag R. Sharma; Lha-Rnga: a form of Ladakhi "folk" music and its relationship to the great tradition of Tibetan Buddhism / Mark Trewin; Antiquities on the southern arteries of the silk route: ethnic movements and new discoveries / Rohit Vohra; Some epistemological aspects of caste among the Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / Peter Webster; Tibet research in China by Tibetans and Chinese after 1945 / Eugen Wehrli; The forms of chanting Gesar and the Bon religion in Tibet / Yang En-hong.

Articles in German or English.