Toni Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 224332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toni Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toni |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Researcher and Part‐Time Lecturer in Religious Studies , University of Canterbury , Christchurch, New Zealand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dismemberment and sharing of game meat by pastoralist hunters on the Tibetan Plateau
Cette contribution examine comment des communautés pastorales vivant sur le plateau tibétain démembrent les animaux sauvages après la chasse, puis distribuent la viande selon certains principes de partage. S'appuyant sur des données ethnographiques et des documents en langue tibétaine, cette étude montre que le démembrement et le partage de la viande de gibier étaient soumis à des règles bien définies et assez rigides, dont certaines sont très an…
Religions of Tibet in Practice
Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas
rje ' ) Asian Highlands Perspectives (AHP) is a trans-disciplinary journal focusing on the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions, including the Southeast Asian Massif, Himalayan Massif, the Extended Eastern Himalayas, the Mongolian Plateau, and other contiguous areas. Cross-regional commonalities in history, culture, language, and socio-political context invite investigations of an interdisciplinary nature not served by current academic forums.…
Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas
Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia
Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the age…
Conflict and social order in Tibet and inner Asia
"Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the ag…
Nomads of Eastern Tibet
This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based upon extensive ethnographic interviews, this study yields a nuanced analysis of the most crucial and controversial relationship in premodern Tibetan soc…
Chapter Two. The Genesis Of Zilphukhog
Chapter Ten. The Political Environment
Guidebook to Lapchi
Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the Iats, 2000. Volume 5: Amdo Tibetans in Transition
This book investigates Tibetan recovery from the devastation of High Socialism and a new engagement with attempts to modernize the region in the era of ‘reform and opening’ in post-Mao China. With chapters on the negotiation of culture and identity in Amdo in contributions on public debate about traditional culture, on attempts at language standardization, and on sexuality. Concerning religion, there are contributions on critical perspectives on …
A Mdo and Its Modern Transition
The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain
The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising…
Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies
Modern environmental knowledge differs from traditional environmental knowledge in being thoroughly quantitative. We exemplify this difference by comparing modem meteorology with traditional Tibetan knowledge about the weather. Modem meteorology understands the weather as a system of global, quantified interrelationships, whereas traditional Tibetan knowledge about the weather relates it to a system of local, qualitative interrelationships of hum…
A Tibetan map of lHo‐kha in the South‐Eastern Himalayan borderlands of Tibet
(1992). A Tibetan map of lHo‐kha in the South‐Eastern Himalayan borderlands of Tibet. Imago Mundi: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 9-23
Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies
Modern environmental knowledge differs from traditional environmental knowledge in being thoroughly quantitative. We exemplify this difference by comparing modem meteorology with traditional Tibetan knowledge about the weather. Modem meteorology understands the weather as a system of global, quantified interrelationships, whereas traditional Tibetan knowledge about the weather relates it to a system of local, qualitative interrelationships of hum…
A Tibetan map of lHo‐kha in the South‐Eastern Himalayan borderlands of Tibet
(1992). A Tibetan map of lHo‐kha in the South‐Eastern Himalayan borderlands of Tibet. Imago Mundi: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 9-23
A Tibetan map of lHo‐kha in the South‐Eastern Himalayan borderlands of Tibet
(1992). A Tibetan map of lHo‐kha in the South‐Eastern Himalayan borderlands of Tibet. Imago Mundi: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 9-23
Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies
Modern environmental knowledge differs from traditional environmental knowledge in being thoroughly quantitative. We exemplify this difference by comparing modem meteorology with traditional Tibetan knowledge about the weather. Modem meteorology understands the weather as a system of global, quantified interrelationships, whereas traditional Tibetan knowledge about the weather relates it to a system of local, qualitative interrelationships of hum…
Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the Iats, 2000. Volume 5: Amdo Tibetans in Transition
This book investigates Tibetan recovery from the devastation of High Socialism and a new engagement with attempts to modernize the region in the era of ‘reform and opening’ in post-Mao China. With chapters on the negotiation of culture and identity in Amdo in contributions on public debate about traditional culture, on attempts at language standardization, and on sexuality. Concerning religion, there are contributions on critical perspectives on …
A Mdo and Its Modern Transition
The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain
The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising…
Nomads of Eastern Tibet
This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet. It offers a uniquely fine-grained descriptive portrait of traditional Tibetan rural life among nomads in the kingdom of Dege. Based upon extensive ethnographic interviews, this study yields a nuanced analysis of the most crucial and controversial relationship in premodern Tibetan soc…
Chapter Two. The Genesis Of Zilphukhog
Chapter Ten. The Political Environment
Guidebook to Lapchi
Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia
Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the age…
Conflict and social order in Tibet and inner Asia
"Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the ag…
Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas
rje ' ) Asian Highlands Perspectives (AHP) is a trans-disciplinary journal focusing on the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions, including the Southeast Asian Massif, Himalayan Massif, the Extended Eastern Himalayas, the Mongolian Plateau, and other contiguous areas. Cross-regional commonalities in history, culture, language, and socio-political context invite investigations of an interdisciplinary nature not served by current academic forums.…
Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas
Religions of Tibet in Practice
Dismemberment and sharing of game meat by pastoralist hunters on the Tibetan Plateau
Cette contribution examine comment des communautés pastorales vivant sur le plateau tibétain démembrent les animaux sauvages après la chasse, puis distribuent la viande selon certains principes de partage. S'appuyant sur des données ethnographiques et des documents en langue tibétaine, cette étude montre que le démembrement et le partage de la viande de gibier étaient soumis à des règles bien définies et assez rigides, dont certaines sont très an…
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