Sikkim

Sikkim
Author: Maitreyee Choudhury
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9788183241588

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: India. Department of Environment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1984
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN:

Ecology, Culture, and Change

Ecology, Culture, and Change
Author: Veena Bhasin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1989
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Sikkim has a population of 3,16,355 people (1981 census) and an area of 4276 Sq. Kms. Despite its small area, much ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is exhibited. Very few studies on the diverse tribal culture were undertaken in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. No anthropological studies have been undertaken on Sikkim since its integration with India. This work prepared under Man and Biosphere Programme of UNESCO is a significant contribution to the knowledge of this little known part of the mountain world. In the present book, Dr. Veena Bhasin, who carried out field work during 1981 to 1983 in North Sikkim records the complex patterns of the two diverse culture of the Lepchas and the Bhutias of North Sikkim. A micro approache has been used to explore indepth, the myriad aspects of life at Dzongu reserve habited by Pepaches and Lachen and Lachung valleys habited by Bhutias. The Social organisation, religious beliefs, economic structure and social control have been described in detail.

Seminar

Seminar
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1991
Genre: Asia
ISBN:

Accessions List, South Asia

Accessions List, South Asia
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1985
Genre: South Asia
ISBN:

Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Habitat, Habitation, and Health in the Himalayas

Habitat, Habitation, and Health in the Himalayas
Author: Veena Bhasin
Publisher: Kamla Raj Enterprises
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1990
Genre: Brahmaur (India : Tahsil)
ISBN:

The present study analyses various facets of Population ecology of the people of Sikkim State and Bharmour Tehsil, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh to Project some fresh insight into certain areas not yet fully explored, which will eventually lead to a more comprehensive overview of population ecology and its various problems. No study can be completely exhaustive but the present one claims to be a step in that direction.In ecosystems of which human beings, including human settlements, form a part, human cultural components are taken into account. Although culture is a product of human populations and is ineffectual as an ecological force in the absence of such populations, it is neverthless useful to depict culture as a separate set of components of the system. Though it is generally understood that human well-being in a human settlement is essential, it does not have a commonly accept critierion. It may be vague or ambigous and hence elude definition. Well being has physical, mental, ethical, socio-economic, political and ecological dimensions. What constitutes health or welfare or pathology changes according to cultural setting, environmental conditions and ecological relationship.