Tibetan frontier families : reflections of three generations from Dingri / Barbara Nimri Aziz.

"Together with new preface detailing author's 1987-88 research Tibet, Tibetan Frontier Families becomes chronicle four generations Tibet's people. This community a hundred villages embedded the Tibetan valleys hillsides Dingri, adjacent the Pung Chu River in Tibet, facing Mount Everest the north, the main route between and Lhasa, Tibet. unique chronicle, now updated beautifully written preface, the first sociological account of kind. Along with unparalleled personal portraits these mountain the book explains Tibetans' complex household structure detailed family genealogies case histories. We understand the economy of Dingri the context affairs and relation to the land which people move work. We learn religious history and what means to be and though intimate and vivid stories family dynamics."--