Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Tibetan and Nepali Terms

Introduction

1 Dolpo’s Agro-Pastoral System

2 Pastoralism, in View and Review

3 A Sketch of Dolpo’s History

4 A New World Order in Tibet

5 Nepal’s Relations with Its Border Populations and the Case of Dolpo

6 The Wheel Is Broken:
A Pastoral Exodus in the Himalayas

7 Visions of Dolpo:
Conservation and Development

8 A Tsampa Western

9 Perspectives on Change

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Appendix 1: Pasture Toponomy

Appendix 2: Dolpo Plant Species

Index