Ebook New Perspectives on Modern Ladakh. Fresh Discoveries and Continuing Conversations in the Indian Himalaya pdf

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Contents
Introduction
7

EBEN YONNETTI
When the Snowy Mountains Turn Black: Climate Change, Local Deities, and Buddhism in Ladakh
15

SIERRA GLADFELTER
Artificial Glaciers and Ice Stupas: The Contemporary Remaking of Ladakh’s Place-Based Practices of Water Storage as Modern “Solutions to Climate Change
45

JULIANE DAME & JUDITH MULLER
Urbanisation in Ladakh: Migration Patterns and Socio-ecological Implications
73

SOPHIE DAY
Non-married women: life stories from four members of an extended family in and around Leh
95

KONCHOK DORJEY
Myths and Social Beliefs Surrounding Wild Mushrooms in Ladakh
115

RAFAŁ BESZTERDA
The Humble Honeybee: an Index of Social Change in Kinnaur?
133

PIOTR KLAFKOWSKI
The Roerich Family and Ladakh
155

RIGZIN CHODON
Kye lang ag bar and La dwags pho nya: two 20th Century Missionary Newspapers from Lahaul and Ladakh
181

JOHN BRAY
The Moravian Mission’s Weaving Enterprise in Ladakh (1939-1947): Social Uplift in a Time of Change
207

URSULA KLINGELFUSS-SCHNEIDER
Weaving in Lower Ladakh - a report
225

CATHERINE ALLIÉ
“We are KAL: Weaving and Social Enterprise in Contemporary Ladakh
247

BETTINA ZEISLER & RAINER KIMMIG
Did Gama Ever Reach the Land of Lama?
263

Index of figures, maps, drawings and diagrams
289
Index of person, geographical places and subjects
297