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Peace and Conflict in Ladakh: The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order

Peace and Conflict in Ladakh: The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order

Pirie, Fernanda

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 9004155961
ISBN13: 9789004155961
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 21 2006
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Long caught between powerful neighbours, Ladakh is now a border region in the vast Indian nation state. In this detailed, anthropological study Fernanda Pirie traces the ways order has been created by, but also despite and in defiance of, the powerful external forces of religion, war, politics and wealth.
Gradually a clear analysis unfolds of the subtle dynamics that have long characterised relations between local communities and centres of power and which can successfully be applied to the wider region. This exemplary study of conflict resolution brings to light the means by which small communities, both rural and urban, negotiate peace amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity, while at the same time critically re-examining theories that over-emphasize the explanatory power of Buddhism.
This rich ethnographic account of local practices fills a conspicuous gap in secondary literature on Tibetan law.

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