Tibetan Diary
From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8064429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoff Childs (0000-0002-5910-0298, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 228 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Tibetan Diary (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520937840 |
| OpenAlex | W4241078331 |
| Open Library | OL29600027M |
| ISBN | 9780520937840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders. Offering insights into the complex dynamics of the ethnically Tibetan enclave of Nubri, Childs provides a vivid and compelling portrait of the ebb and flow of life and death, of communal harmony and discord, and of personal conflicts and social resolutions. Part ethnography, part travelogue, and part biography, Tibetan Diary is a one-of-a-kind book that conveys the tangled intricacies of a Tibetan society. Childs's immensely readable and informative narrative incorporates contemporary observations as well as vignettes culled from first-person testaments including oral histories and autobiographies. Examining the tensions between cultural ideals and individual aspirations, he explores certain junctures in the course of life: how the desire to attain religious knowledge or to secure a caretaker in old age contrasts with social expectations and familial obligation, for example. The result is a vivid and unparalleled view of the quest for both spiritual meaning and mundane survival that typifies life in an unpredictable Himalayan environment
Geography · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Indian and Buddhist Studies · china · chinese · Ethnology · Philosophy · Religious life and customs · Social life and customs · tibet autonomous region · Tibetan Philosophy · History
Little Buddhas
Lived experiences of ‘peak water’ in the high mountains of Nepal and Peru
How Buddhist Renunciation Produces Difference
When women work
Trekking and toddlers
State power and trans-border people in China’s Himalayan borderlands
Migration, Social Change, Health, and the Realm of the Possible
The (un)Changing Karma
Closing the Womb Door
Pragmatics of everyday life
Returning from the dead
Ecological pressures and milk metabolic hormones of ethnic Tibetans living at different altitudes
Depopulating the Himalayan Highlands
Interlocutors
Himalayan futures
Ethics, Social Space, and Urbanisation
Milk at altitude
We Drew a Swastika of Grain
Theory as ethics
Ethnographic agency, field assistants and the rise of cultural activism in Nepal
The poisoner and the parasite
The Biographical Process of a Tibetan Lama
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |