Himalayan Households Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes - Hardcover

Himalayan Households Tamang Demography and Domestic Process

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Introduction. 1. Issues in the study of a mountain adaptation toward an anthropological framework for population research. 2. Timling a mountain village in Nepal. 3. Data and methods. 4. The subsistence economy. 5. Demographic processes I fertility. 6. Demographic process II mortality and the Tamang life table mortality. 7. Transitions the Tamang life course and the household developmental cycle in Timling. 8. Variations in the working of the domestic economy distribution of wealth. 9. Timling in a changing world implications for theory. Epilogue Timling and demographic theory revisited. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Throughout the Nepal Himalaya socioeconomic changes are transforming the lives of remote agro pastoral peoples bringing them into new relationships will once distant elites. Himalayan Households is a comprehensive study of the cultural ecology demography and domestic organization of one village undergoing these changes the Tamang community of Timling. Faced for the first time with an inability to procure most subsistence needs from their local environment these Tamang have joined that flow of people from rural Nepal who compete for wage labor to supplement their household economies. These changes are profoundly altering internal village relationships which are organized by both marriage and an ethic of reciprocity while simultaneously drawing Timlings people into a labor pool where they are disadvantaged because of exposure to unfamiliar experiences. Tom Fricke explores the demographic roots of these changes in the social organization of Tamang economy and the implications for this population struggling with finite resources. 243 pp. Seller Inventory # 53014

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