Last Memories - A mdo Tibetan Tribal Lives: Rdor jag and Thang ta མཇུག་མཐའི་དྲན་པ། རུ་སྔན་ཚ་ནག་འབྲོག་སྡེའི་རྡོར་ཇག་དང་ཐང་ཏ་ཚོ་བ།

• Main Authors: Klu Thar Rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ།, Stuart, CK, Honkasalo, Sami
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Tibetan Studies; Tibetan oral history; Tibetan autethnography; Tibetan local history; Qinghai Tibetan history; Tibetan autobiography; Himalaya Life; sami
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773320; https://zenodo.org/record/3773320

Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ། with CK Stuart and Sami Honkasalo. 2020. Last Memories - A mdo Tibetan Tribal Lives: Rdor jag and Thang ta མཇུག་མཐའི་དྲན་པ། རུ་སྔན་ཚ་ནག་འབྲོག་སྡེའི་རྡོར་ཇག་དང་ཐང་ཏ་ཚོ་བ། Asian Highlands Perspectives 59. PDF https://bit.ly/2xHuodf epub https://bit.ly/2xwUoHU Kindle MOBI https://bit.ly/2WgbRP5 at-cost hardback https://bit.ly/2We2kby Klu thar rgyal's grandfather https://bit.ly/3bdZ8B3 Compelling history in its careful treatment of the perplexing search for "manhood," social placement and meaning, and religious practice and belief - particularly lha pa 'spirit mediums' - gives great value to Klu thar rgyal's grandfather's and great-aunt's meticulous accounts of ordinary life among herders in the 1929-1958 era among A mdo tribes. This extraordinary work, packed with tragedy, violence, replete with the most tender of moments emphasizes the value of ethnographic work, while also challenging the mindless embrace of modern transformations. Sketches by the principal informant's grandson, photographs, maps, the author's nuanced interpretations and insights, and much more, further enrich this valuable addition to the study of nomad Tibetan life recounted by those who lived it, provoking the question: "What should students of the past focus on?" CONTENTS ACCLAIM DEDICATION CONTENTS ILLUSTRATOR ABBREVIATIONS LOCATIONS PEOPLE, PLACE NAMES, AND MONASTERIES AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS PART ONE: LO PART TWO: LCAGS MO BYAMS APPENDIX ONE: Names of Yaks, Sheep, and Horses by Bu lo, Klu thar rgyal, and Sami Honkasalo APPENDIX TWO: Further Reading REFERENCES TIBETAN AND CHINESE TERMS : Klu thar rgyal ཀླུ་ཐར་རྒྱལ། with CK Stuart and Sami Honkasalo. 2020. Last Memories - A mdo Tibetan Tribal Lives: Rdor jag and Thang ta མཇུག་མཐའི་དྲན་པ། རུ་སྔན་ཚ་ནག་འབྲོག་སྡེའི་རྡོར་ཇག་དང་ཐང་ཏ་ཚོ་བ། Asian Highlands Perspectives 59.