Tibetan Nomads

Publications on Tibetan and related Nomads.

Books and Articles

Bai, W. Q.; et al. 

Bailey, J.F., B. Healy, H. Jianlin, L. Sherchand, S.L. Pradhan, et al.

Banks, Tony 

Banks, Tony, Camille Richard, Li Ping, and Yan Zhaoli

Barrett, Christopher B.

Bauer, Kenneth

Bauer, Kenneth and Geoff Childs

Bauer, Kenneth and Yonten Nyima

Beimatsho

Beall, Cynthia M. and Melvyn C. Goldstein

Beall, Cynthia M., Melvyn C. Goldstein, and The Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences

Bedunah, Donald J. and Richard B. Harris

Breivik, Irene

Brower, B. and A. Dennis

  • Yak grazing and forest dynamics in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
    [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development.]

Buffetrille, Katia

  • A controversy on vegetarianism
    [In Roberto Vitali (ed.) Trails of the Tibetan Tradition, Papers for Elliot Sperling. Dharamsala, Amye Machen Institute. 2014: 113-128]

Cai, Ga, H. A., and Z. Tang

Cencetti, Elisa

Cerny, Astrid

Chang, D. H. S.

Cheng, Guodong & Wu, Tonghua

Chos-bstan-rgyal

Chu, Duo; Lu, Lixin; and Zhang, Tingjun.

Cincotta, Richard P.; Soest, Van; J., Peter; Robertson, James B.; Beall, Cynthia M.; and Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Ciren Yangzong

Clarke, Graham E.

  • Socio-Economic Change and the Environment in a Pastoral Area of Lhasa Municipality
    [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 97-119]
  • Development, Society and Environment in Tibet
    [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 1-45]
  • Aspects of the Social Organisation of Tibetan Pastoral Communities
    [NARITA 1992. Reprinted from: Tibetan Studies, Proceedings of the 5th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, NARITA 1989.]

Costello, Susan

Craig, Sienna

Dasgupta, Shreya

Davidson, Grant; Behnke, R. H.; and Kerven, C.

Dawa, Tsering and Farrington, John D.

Dbang 'dus sgrol ma

Dbang 'dus sgrol ma; Dkon mchog dge legs; et al

Dideron, Sylvie; Beerling, Marie-Louise

  • The Socioeconomic Situation of Herders in Guoluo Prefecture
    [Wageningen, N.;Wenjun, S. (ed.), The Living Plateau: Changing Lives of Herders in Qinghai - Concluding Seminar of Qinghai Livestock Development Project. 2001. ISBN: 92-9115-376-1. Access restricted due to license; may be available at ICIMOD site.]

Dong, Shikui;Long, Ruijun; Hu Zizhi; Ding Luming; and Xi Meiyong

Dong, Shikui; Long, Ruijun; and Kang, Muyi

Droma, Tsamcho

  • The Changes of the Social Status of Tibetan Women in Nomadic Area: A Survey on the Women in Nyerong County
    [Tibetan Studies, pp. 111-120, 2013]

Du, Fachun

Ekvall, Robert B

  • Cultural Relations on the Kansu-Tibetan Border
    [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.]

  • Demographic Aspects of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism
    [Population Growth: Anthropological Implications by Brian Spooner, (1972), pp. 269-285.]

  • Some Differences in Tibetan land tenure and utilization
    [Sinologica. 4(1): 39-48. 1956.] \

  • The High-Pasturage ones of Tibet also grow old
    [Proceedings of the American Philisophical Society, 124 (6): 42 9-437. December 1980.]

Feng, Lu

Fischer, Andrew

Foggin, J.M.

Foggin, Peter M., Foggin, Marc J., and Torrance, Marion E.

Foggin, J.M., and Smith, A.T.

Foggin, Peter M.; Torrance, Marion E.; Dorjec, Drashi; Xuric, Wenzha; Foggin, J. Marc; and Torrance, Jane

Fox, Joseph L.; Mathiesen, Per; Yangzom, Drolma; Næss, Marius W.; and Binrong, Xu

Fox, Joseph L.; Yangzong, Ciren; Dhondup, Kelsang; Dorji, Tsechoe; and Richard, Camille

Fox, Joseph L.; Dhondup, Kelsang; and Dorji, Tsechoe

Fox, Joseph L. & Dorji, Tsechoe

Frauenfeld, Oliver W.; Zhang, Tingjun; and Serreze, Mark C.

Gao, Y.H.; Luo, P.; Wu, N.; Chen, H.; and Wang, G.X.

Gao, Y.H.; Luo, P.; Wu, N.; Yi, S.; and Chen, Huai.

Gaerrang

Gasse, F.; Derbyshire, E.

  • Environmental changes in the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas - Preface.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 120 (1-2): 1-3.1996. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00030-5. [Access restricted due to license; may be available via publisher site.]

Gelek, Lobsong

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Goldstein, Melvyn C. & Beall, Cynthia M.

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Beall, Cynthia M.; and Cincotta, Richard P.

Gongbuzeren, Yanbo Li, Wenjun Li

Gruschke, Andreas

Gruschke, Andreas; Breuer, Ingo

Gurung, G.; McVeigh, C.

  • Pastoral management and yak rearing in Manang's Nar-Phu valley.
    [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Hafner, Silke; Unteregelsbacher, Sebastian; Seeber, Elke; et al.

Han, J.G.; Zhang, Y.J.; Wang, C.J.; Bai, W.M.; Wang, J.R.; Han, G.D.; and Li, L.H.

Harris, Richard

Harris, Richard & Pletscher, David H.

Ho, Peter

Holzner, W. and Kriechbaum, M.

Holzner, W.; Kriechbaum, M.; Ramble, C.; Diemberger, H.

  • Integrated ecological studies of pasture problems in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, P. R. China. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development.]

Hongyan, X.; Richard, C.; Jianchu, X.; Jianhua, W.

Horlemann, Bianca

Huber, Toni

Huber, Toni & Pederson, Poul

Inamura, Tetsuya

Iselin, Lilian

Jest, C.; Bonnemaire, J.

  • Towards a global approach to the study of yak research and development.
    [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Special Session.]

Jianhua, Wang; Richard, Cammile ; Xie, Hongyan; and Xu Jianchu

Jianzhong, Yan; Yingying, Wu; Yili, Zhang

Jin, Chengwu

Jun, He

Katzner, T.E.; Lai, C.H.; Gardiner, J.D.; Foggin, J.M.; Pearson, D.; and Smith, A.T.

Ketola, Tarja

  • Developing Tibet into a Special Sustainability Zone in China?
    [Lakkala, Hanna and Vehmas, Jarmo (eds.). 2011. Trends and Future of Sustainable Development. Proceedings of the conference "Trends and Future of Sustainable Development," 9-10 June 2011. Tampere, Finland. FFRC eBook 15/2011. Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku.126-137.]

Klein, Julia A.; Harte, John; and Zhao, Xin-Quan

Klein, J.; Xinquan, Zh.; Harte, J.

Klein, Julia A.; Yeh, Emily; Bump, Joseph; Nyima, Yonten; and Hopping, Kelly

Kumpula, Timo; Colpaert, Alfred; Qian, Wang; Manderscheid, Angela

Kreutzman, Hermann

Lai, H.H.

Levine, Nancy

Lhagvasuren, B.; Munkhtsog, B.

Li, Chaoliu; Kang, Shichang; Chen, Pengfei; Zhang, Qianggong; et al.

Li, J.; Cook, E.; D'arrigo, R.; Chen, F.; Gou, X.; Peng, J.; and Huang, J.

Liu, Xiaodong and Chen, Baode

Liu, X.; Shao, X.; Wang, L.; Liang, E.; Qin, D.; and Ren, J.

Lobsang

  • The Development of Animal Husbandry on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
    [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 77-78

Long Ruijun

Lu, Qingshui and Zhao, Zhiping

Lu, Tao; Wu, Ning; and Luo, Peng

Ma, Rong

MacMillan, Douglas

  • Balancing grassland ecosystem services to ensure long-term sustainability of Tibetan nomadic communities in the Sanjiangyuan Region of Western China.
    [Selection of Presentations from the "Human Dimensions of Ecological Conservation in the Tibetan Plateau Region" International Symposium. Xining, Qinghai, China. 21-26 August, 2011. pp 43-49.]

Mailisha

Manderscheid, Angela

Manderscheid, Angela; Naukkarinen, Arvo; Ning, Wu; Colpaert, Alfred

McVeigh, Colleen

Meiping, Wang; Cheng-Zhang, Zhao; Limin, Hua; Squires, Victor

Merkle, R.

  • Nomadism: A socio-ecological mode of culture.
    [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Miehe, Georg

Miehe, Georg;Sabine Miehe, Knut Kaiser, Christopher Reudenbach, Lena Behrendes, La Duo, Frank Schlütz.

Miller, Daniel

Miller, Daniel and Daniel Sheehy

Namgail, Tsewang; Bhatnagar, Yash Veer; Mishra, Charudutt; and Bagchi, Sumanta

Næss, Marius W.; Lhagyal, Dondrup; Yangzom, Drolma; Mathiesen, Per; Fox, Joseph L.; andBårdsen, Bård J.

Nori, Michele

  • Hoofs on the Roof: Pastoral livelihood on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The case of Chengduo county, Yushu prefecture. [ASIA: 2004.]

Oi, J.C.

Osmaston, Henry A.

  • Agriculture in the Main Lhasa Valley.
    [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 121-151]

Piao, Shilong; Fang, Jingyun; and He, Jinsheng.

Pirie, Fernanda

Postiglione, Gerard; Jiao, Ben; and Xiaoliang, Li

Postiglione, Gerard A.; Jiao, Ben; and Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Pradhan, S. L.; Hitchcock, D. K.; Miller, D.

Ptackova, Jarmila

Pu, J.; Yao, T.; Yang, M.; Tian, L.; Wang, N.; Ageta, Y.; and Fujita, K.

Rasool, G.; Kahn, B. A.; Jasra, A. W.

  • Yak pastoralism in Pakistan. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Rhode, David; Madsen, David B.; Brantingham, P. Jeffrey; and Dargye, Tsultrim

Richard, Camille

Richard, Camille; Jingzheng, Tan

  • Resource Tenure Models for Rangeland Improvements. [Richard C.; Hoffman, K. (eds.) Strategic Innovations for Improving Pastoral Livelihoods in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Highlands: Volume II: Technical Papers. 2004. ISBN: 92-9115-863-1.Access restricted due to license; may be available via ICIMOD site.]

Richard, Camille; Yan, Zhaoli; and Guizhan, Du

Riseth, Jan Åge; Johansen, Bernt; Vatn, Arild

Roder, W.

  • Grazing resources for yak production systems in Bhutan. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Salik, Jan; Yongping, Yang Yongping; and Amend, Anthony

Schaller, George B.; Binyuan, Gu

Schaller, G.B. & Wulin,Liu

Schaller, George B.; Junrang, Ren

Schaller, George B.; Junrang, Ren; Mingjiang, Qiu

Schaller, George B.; Junrang, Ren; Mingjiang, Qiu

Schwartz, Ronald D.

  • The Reforms Revisited: Grain Procurement in Tibet. [G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 152-165]

Schwarzwalder, Brian; Baohua, Zheng; Ping, Li; et al.

Sheehey, Dennis P.; Miller, Daniel; and Johnson, Douglas A.

Shinjilt

Sillanpää, Mika; Hulkkonen, Riina-Maarit; Manderscheid, Angela

Skjervold, Marius &Johnsrud, Anders Bille

Sneath, David

Squires, Victor; Limin, Hua

Song, Hongyuan

  • Policy Review and Formulation in China's GIPS: Poverty Reduction in Grassland Improvement Policy  [Research Center for Rural Economy. ADB TA NO. 4308-PRC.]

Strategic Services, Office of

  • Political Dynamics of China's Northwest [1944.]

Swift, Jeremy; Bass, Stephen; Liu, Yongong

  • Pastoral Risk Management in Qinghai Province. A Final Report. [Joint publication of FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Qinghai Province. FAO-China Technical Cooperation Project-TCP: TCP/CPR/2902 (A). Access restricted due to license; may be available via FAO.org site.]

Sulek, Emilia

Tan, Gillian

Tashi, Gongbo; Foggin, Marc

Tashi, Nyima

  • Development Discourses on the Tibetan Plateau: Urbanization and Expropriation of Farmland in Dartsedo.
    [Himalaya. XXX (1-2): 79-91, 2010.]
  • In the name of conservation and harmonious development: The separation of pastoralists from pastures in Tibet.
    [In On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society. Tibetan and Uyghurs in Socialist China. Trine Brox and Ildiko Beller-Hann (eds.), 127-158, 2014.]

Tashi, Nyima; Xugang, Luo; Shunxiang, Yu; and Judson, Geoff

Thargyal, Rinzin (edited by Toni Huber)

Tibet Environmental Watch - Reports

Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD); The League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP)

  • Wasted Lives: A Critical Analysis of China's Campaign to End Tibetan Pastoral Lifeways. [Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy, May 2015]

Tsering, Sawa

  • A Sustainable Mechanism for Wildlife Protection and Consumptive Wildlife Utilization in the Chang Thang Region of Tibet. [Tibetan Studies, pp. 128-137, 2013]

Tsering, Dawa; Farrington, John D.; Norbu, Kelsang

  • Competition and coexistence. Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Chang Tang Region of Tibet. [WWF China-Tibet Program. May 2007. 133-303. English translation.]
  • Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Chang Tang Region of Tibet.The impact of Tibetan brown bears and other wildlife on nomadic herders with recommendations for conflict mitigation.
    [WWF China-Tibet Program. August 2006.]

Van Wageningen, N. M.; Wenjun, S.

  • Production and use of an illustrated handbook for sheep and yak herders in Qinghai.
    [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development.]

Wang, Zongming; Song, Kaishan; Hu, Liangjun

Weikai, B.; Ning, W.; Zhaoguang, L.

  • Development dynamics of fragile pastoral systems of the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau.
    [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Weiwei, Lang and Zhao, S.

  • Zangbei mumin gongminquan he zhengzhiquan de renleixue kaocha: yi Naqu muqu cunlou shehui weili. [Study on civil and political rights of herdsman of northern Tibet from anthropological perspective: a case study of the village community of Nakchu pastoral area] [Tibetan Studies, 1: 40-52. 2012.]

Wilk, Richard

Williams, Dee Mack

Winkler, Daniel

Woo,Wing Thye; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yue; Wu, Harry; and Xinpeng, Xu

Wu, Ning

Wu, Ning & Richard, Camille

Wu, Ning & Yan, Zhaoli

Wu, Ning; Yan, Zhaoli; Lu, Tao

Wu, Ning; Jian, Liu; Zhaoli, Yan

Xiaopen, P.; Degang, Zh.; Changlin, X.; Jiangang, Ch.

Xu, Jianchu et al

Xu, Jun

Xue, B.; Zhao, X. Q.; and Zhang, Y. S.

Yeh, Emily T.

Yingchun, L. & Qingping, Zh.

  • Sustainable development of rangeland resources on the Qinghai - Tibetan Plateau, P. R. China. [Jianlin H., Richard C., Hanotte O., McVeigh, C. and Rege J.E.O. (eds.) 2002. Yak production in central Asian highlands. Proceedings of the third international congress on yak held in Lhasa, P. R. China, 4-9 September 2000. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. Session 1. Rangeland Development. ]

Zhang, Jiancai

  • Guoluo Zhou chongcao ziyuan guanli xianzhuang ji guanli. [Current status and management of caterpillar fungus resources in Golok Prefecture]
    [Qinghai Prataculture, 12(1): 33-34 and 37. 2003.]

Zhang, Qian

Zhang, R. C.

Zukosky, Michael

Nomads of Golok, Qinghai 

Buffetrille, Katia

Cooke, Susette

Ekvall, Robert B.

Horlemann, Bianca  

Levine, Nancy E.

Pirie, Fernanda

  • Feuding, Mediation and the Negotiation of Authority among the Nomads of Eastern Tibet [Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2005]

Yeh, Emily T.


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