The ranking place in the Sharwa home (ancient Amdo)
In the 1950s, prior to the arrival of the Chinese in Tibet, Sharwa country—inhabited by Tibetan-culture sedentary farmers, and located not far from the Chinese town of Songpan at the edge of Sichuan—counted among what Carrasco called ‘the tribal communities of Amdo’. It was made up of a half-dozen...
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2022
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| Online Zugang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Zusammenfassung: | In the 1950s, prior to the arrival of the Chinese in Tibet, Sharwa country—inhabited by Tibetan-culture sedentary farmers, and located not far from the Chinese town of Songpan at the edge of Sichuan—counted among what Carrasco called ‘the tribal communities of Amdo’. It was made up of a half-dozen small political federations (tsho), each of which assembled several villages around the worship of a sacred mountain, a country god (yul-lha). These federations were not dependent on any large mona... |
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