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The main areas of focus will be: 1) the ways in which many of the ethnic groups of Nepal have emerged, in relatively recent times, in response to a national legal code based on caste stratification; 2) the evolution of Tibetan kinship terminology, and how this reflects changes in the political organisation of society; 3) Tibetan marriage systems (such as fraternal polyandry), which suggest the emergence of a ³house society²  and 4) the phenomenon of regionalism, and how this relates to the cult of sacred mountains on the one hand and, on the other, the need for a pan-Tibetan identity both in the People¹s Republic of China and in the diaspora community.

Reading list

1. Snellgrove, D. and H. Richardson 1980 (1968). A Cultural History of Tibet. Boulder: Prajna Press.
Stein, R.A. 1972. Tibetan Civilization. London: Faber.
2. Goldstein, M.C. 1989. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: the Demise of the Lamaist State. Berkeley: University of California Press/ New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Ltd.
3. Karko, K. 2000. Namma: a Tibetan Love Story. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
4. Shakya, T. 1999. The Dragon in the Land of Snows: a History of Modern Tibet since 1947. London: Pimlico.
5. Lopez, D.S. 1998. Prisoners of Shangri-La. Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Gellner, E. 1979 (1975). The Kathmandu option. In Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory. Cambridge: CUP, 351-369.