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Hay, Katherine Eve. "Gender, modernization, and change in Ladakh, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22080.pdf.
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Hay, Katherine Eve 1972 Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Gender, modernization, and change in Ladakh, India." Ottawa.:, 1997.
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Day, Sophie. "Embodying spirits village oracles and possession ritual in Ladakh, North India /." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.318353.
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Delaballe, Anne. "Les nourritures du partage et de la discorde : étude des relations sociales entre bouddhistes et musulmans du Ladakh au travers de l'analyse des échanges alimentaires." Paris, EHESS, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EHES0267.
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C'est la région la plus occidentale du plateau tibétain qui constitue le terrain de mes recherches : le Ladakh. Du point de vue politique et social, le Ladakh comprend deux districts, celui de Leh et celui de Kargil, qui sont les deux seuls centres bureaucratiques, commerciaux et militaires de la région. Cette division administrative recouvre une autre réalité sociale puisque le district le Leh se compose d'une population de confession bouddhiste majoritaire à 80%, contrairement à la population du district de Kargil principalement musulmane puisque elle-aussi majoritaire à 80%. Et c'est précisement de l'antagonisme des relations sociales entre bouddhistes et musulmans ladakhi dont il est sujet dans cette thèse, puisqu'il est question d'étudier, au travers des pratiques alimentaires et de certaines opérations qui touchent aux transformations ainsi qu'à la commercialisation des nourritures, la dynamique des relations sociales présentes entre le bouddhistes et les musulmans ladakhi.
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Phylactou, Maria. "Household organisation and marriage in Ladakh Indian Himalaya." Thesis, Online version, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.261706.
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Byrne, Martin Edward. "Glacier Monitoring in Ladakh and Zanskar, northwestern India." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06152009-155836/.
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Glaciers in the Himalaya are often heavily covered with supraglacial debris, making them difficult to study with remotely-sensed imagery alone. Various methods such as band ratios can be used effectively to map clean-ice glaciers; however, a thicker layer of debris often makes it impossible to distinguish between supraglacial debris and the surrounding terrain. Previously, a morphometric approach employing an ASTER-derived digital elevation model (DEM) has been used to map glaciers in the Khumbu Himal and the Tien Shan. This project aims first to test the ability of the morphometric procedure to map small glaciers; second, to use the morphometric approach to map glaciers in Ladakh; and third, to use Landsat and ASTER data and GPS and field measurements to monitor glacier change in Ladakh over the past four decades. Field work was carried out in the summers of 2007 and 2008. For clean ice, a ratio of shortwave infrared (SWIR, 1.6-1.7 µm) and near infrared (NIR, 0.76-0.86 µm) bands from the ASTER dataset was used to distinguish snow and ice. For debris-covered glaciers, morphometric features such as slope, derived from a DEM, were combined with thermal imagery and supervised classifiers to map glacial margins. The method is promising for large glaciers, although problems occurred in the distal and lateral parts and in the forefield of the glaciers. The morphometric approach was inadequate for mapping small glaciers, due to a paucity of unique topographic features on the glaciers which can be used to distinguish them from the surrounding terrain. A multi-temporal analysis of three glaciers in Ladakh found that two of them have recededone since at least the mid-1970s, the other since at least 2000while a third glacier, Parkachik Glacier, seemed to have retreated in the 1980s, only to advance in the 1990s and early 2000s. However, from 2004-2008 it showed only negligible change making its current status difficult to determine without further monitoring. The glacier outlines derived during this project will be added to the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) database. In testing the limits of the morphometric approach, the thesis has provided a valuable contribution to the present literature and knowledge-base regarding the mapping of debris-covered glaciers.
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Demenge, Jonathan. "The political ecology of road construction in Ladakh." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38501/.
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This thesis explores the politics and consequences of road construction for local populations and migrant road workers in Ladakh. Through a political ecology framework, I consider road construction as the transformation of an environment in which different agents act through specific socio-political arrangements and for purposes that are socially and culturally mediated. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in remote villages and among groups of Nepali and Jharkhandi road workers in Ladakh, the thesis documents the case of the Zanskar Highway, a 292 km long trans- Himalayan road that has been under construction since the 1970s. It analyses the reasons why states build roads, nationally and more specifically in the contested landscape of Ladakh; why people want roads; how people negotiate roads and their trajectory; and what the consequences of roads and road construction are in terms of mobility, isolation, resource use, livelihoods and well-being. In the thesis, I question the roads-development nexus, and argue that the reasons why states build roads are extremely diverse and have changed over time. I argue that road construction is a highly political process determined by conflicting motivations and perceptions. I also argue that the consequences of roads are complex, often ambiguous and region-specific, and that gains and losses that occur because of roads and their construction are unequally distributed, within and between local and migrant populations. The research makes an original contribution to road studies by studying the political, socio-economic and symbolic consequences of both roads and the process of their construction for the populations that live near new roads and those who build them. It also links ex-ante with ex-post road studies by looking at what happens during the process of construction. Finally, it contributes to Ladakh studies by documenting the history of road construction in the region and providing the first study of migrants in Ladakh.
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Kloos, Stephan. "Tibetan medicine among the buddhist dards of Ladakh /." Wien : Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39210090z.
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Bruneau, Laurianne. "Le Ladakh (état de Jammu et Cachemire, Inde) de l'Age du Bronze à l'introduction du bouddhisme : une étude de l'art rupestre." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010610.
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Le Ladakh constitue la plus vaste, la plus élevée et la plus occidentale des régions naturelles de 1'Himalaya. Bien que politiquement rattachée à l'état indien du Jammu et Cachemire, elle est géographiquement située aux confins de l' Asie Centrale, de la Chine, du Tibet et de l'Inde. Par conséquent nous pouvons présumer que cette situation privilégiée lui a conféré une importance historique majeure. Cependant, Ie Ladakh a fait I'objet de peu de recherches archéologiques : on compte seulement trois sondages. Le manque de données est aujourd'hui comblé par un matériel abondant, varié et fiable : 1'art rupestre. Véritables créations picturales ou simples graffiti, les pétroglyphes sont des marqueurs spatio-temporels immuables, qui ne peuvent mentir ni sur leur provenance ni celle de leurs auteurs. De part leur quantité (on en connaît plusieurs milliers) et leur variété (i1s illustrent des êtres anthropomorphes, zoomorphes, des monuments et des signes), ils recèlent des informations essentielles pour l'histoire du peuplement. Puisque les représentations rupestres couvrent une période s'étendant de la Préhistoire à 1'époque moderne nous avons opéré un choix pour notre étude. Par une analyse comparative thématique et stylistique des images gravées nous sommes en mesure d'inscrire le Ladakh au sein du groupe des cultures des steppes à l' Age du Bronze et à l' Age du Fer ainsi que de l'identifier comme carrefour culturel pour la diffusion du Bouddhisme au ler millénaire de notre ère. Les axes de recherches retenus s'inscrivent dans la thématique des recherches archéologiques menées actuellement en Asie centrale.
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Devers, Quentin. "Les fortifications du Ladakh, de l’Âge du Bronze à la perte d’indépendance (1683-1684 d. N. è. )." Paris, EPHE, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EPHE4026.
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Cette étude est consacrée aux fortifications du Ladakh, de l’Âge du Bronze à la perte de son indépendance en 1683-1684. Fondée sur de vastes prospections qui ont permis de rassembler un corpus de deux-cent-quinze sites fortifiés, elle vise à établir un panorama des techniques de construction, à définir une typologie des fortifications et à en retracer l’évolution. Un deuxième volet est consacré à l’étude spatiale des vestiges, pour laquelle l’ensemble des sites archéologiques est pris en considération, notamment l’art rupestre, les sites funéraires, les vestiges bouddhiques (temples, chortens, statuaire lapidaire) et les ruines de villages. Un intérêt particulier est porté à l’identification des réseaux de routes anciens. Une évolution des dynamiques régionales est en outre esquissée, en combinant l’étude des vestiges avec une cartographie des textes anciens, principalement les chroniques du Ladakh. Le dernier volet de ce travail s’attache enfin à rassembler l’ensemble des éléments dégagés précédemment afin de compléter l’histoire connue du LadakhThis study is devoted to the fortifications of Ladakh, from the Bronze Age to the loss of its independence in 1683-1684. Based on extensive field surveys during which a corpus of two- hundred-and-fifteen fortified sites was gathered, this work aims at setting a panorama of construction techniques, at defining a typology of fortifications and at outlining their evolution. A second component is the spatial study of the remains, for which other types of archaeological sites are taken into account, including rock art, funerary sites, Buddhist remains (temples, chortens, rock sculpture) and ruined villages. A particular focus is brought on the identification of ancient route networks. Furthermore, an evolution of regional dynamics is delineated, by combining the study of the remains with a mapping of ancient texts, mainly the chronicles of Ladakh. The last component of this work brings together the various elements outlined previously in order to contribute to the known history of Ladakh
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Mallon, David Paul. "Ecology and conservation of mountain ungulates in Ladakh, India." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267359.
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Research was carried out in a 15,000 km2 study area in central Ladakh, India. The study area is Transhimalayan in character with ecological affinities to Tibet and Central Asia. The main study species were Ladakh urial Ovis vignei, bharal Pseudois nayaur and Himalayan ibex Capra sibirica, with additional data collected on two species occurring marginally within the study area, argali Ovis ammon and kiang Equus klang. Distributions were mapped in detail. Distribution of urial was restricted to a band along the Indus valley and its tributaries. Bharal and ibex were widely distributed and apparently share the study area. Bharal occur in the eastern part of the Zanskar Range and across the eastern plateau of Ladakh. Ibex occur mainly in the western part of the Zanskar range, along the northern slopes of the Himalayan range and the southern slopes of the Ladakh range. Argali and kiang occur across eastern Ladakh and just reach the eastern edge of the study area; both have occasionally established a presence farther west. Current estimated numbers in the study area were: 500-700 urial; 6,000-10,000 bharal, 3150-6150 ibex, <50 kiang and c. 12 argali. Urial use even terrain between 3000-4250m and avoid areas with cliffs. Ibex and bharal both use altitudes up to 5000m and prefer broken, more rugged terrain which they use as escape cover. Discriminant function analysis showed a clear differentiation between urial habitat and that of ibex and bharal, but a substantial overlap in the habitat used by ibex and bharal. The habitat preferences recorded are similar to what is known of other Caprini species. The ungulate community consisted of three main species, each occupying separate parts of the study area. The abrupt boundary between the distributions of ibex and bharal was examined in the framework of parapatry theory. Conservation prospects for mountain ungulates in the study area are currently satisfactory.
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Bainton, David. "Suffering development : indigenous knowledge and western education in Ladakh." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/365ef4b2-e7aa-4be3-bec1-e753374d09c1.
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Gilbert, Eric. "Évolution structurale d'une chaine de collision : Structures et déformation dans le nord de la plaque indienne en Himalaya du Ladakh (cristallin du haut Himalaya et séries téthysiennes)." Poitiers, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986POIT2271.
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Analyse comparee de l'evolution cinematique des series sedimentaires de la plateforme indienne et du sommet de la dalle du tibet en himalayaya du ladakh. L'histoire de la deformation peut etre resumee en trois etapes: epaissisement crustal, raccourcisssement vertical et raccourcisssement horizontal
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Reynhout, Scott A. "Slow denudation within an active orogen: Ladakh Range, northern India." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307320889.
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Wallis, David. "Micro-geodynamics of the Karakoram Fault Zone, Ladakh, NW Himalaya." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6805/.
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Microgeodynamics relates grain-scale deformation microstructures to macroscopic tectonic processes. Here the microgeodynamic approach combines optical and electron microscopy, including electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), with field geology, geothermobarometry and microphysical modelling to study fault rocks deformed within a major continental strike-slip fault to quantify changes in fault zone structure and rheology with crustal depth. The overall thesis rational therefore is to test existing fault models against an exhumed example of a continental strike-slip fault zone, namely the central Karakoram Fault Zone (KFZ), NW India. This approach establishes changes in deformation processes with depth in the upper- to mid-crust and suggests that a range of fault weakening mechanisms have reduced fault rock shear strengths, typified by friction coefficients of 0.3-0.4. Metamorphic petrology and geothermobarometry are used to place the KFZ in the context of regional tectono-metamorphic evolution. It is shown using diagnostic microstructures and pressure-temperature-time paths that the fault initiated after peak metamorphism (677-736°C, 875-1059 MPa) and subsequent migmatisation (688±44°C, 522±91 MPa) and leucogranite emplacement (448±100 MPa). Retrograde phyllonites formed during later strike-slip deformation are investigated in detail using EBSD, geothermometry and microphysical modelling. The phyllonites formed at 351±34°C and had low shear strength (<30 MPa) during frictional-viscous flow. EBSD is also used to derive a novel strain proxy based on quartz crystal preferred orientation intensity. Application of this method distinguishes deformation distributions in transects across the KFZ. Deformation intensity varies from <0.2 in essentially undeformed domains to 1.6 within shear zone strands formed at 500-550°C and c. 15 km depth. Evaluation of the history of the KFZ suggests that whilst it plays a relatively minor role in accommodating India-Asia collision, it can nevertheless be used as an analogue for major continental strike-slip fault zone structure.
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Volf, Pavel. "Seger åt guderna : rituell besatthet hos ladakhier /." Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36962060b.
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Herren, Eveline. "Structures, deformation and metamorphism of the Zanskar area (Ladakh, NW Himalaya) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1987. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=8419.
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Björkman, Leo, and Rita Nordström. "A Study on the Effectiveness of Passive Solar Housing in Ladakh." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280882.
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Energy use in buildings account for 32% of total global final energy consumption, and consequently, a large portion of energy - related greenhouse gas emissions. Passive Solar Designs are sustainable building techniques that use solar energy to heat or coo l living spaces without the aid of mechanical or electrical devices. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Passive Solar Housing as a possible solution to the heating challenges currently faced in Ladakh, India, from the environmental, social, and economic sustainability perspectives. Two types of Passive Solar Techniques are studied: Trombe Walls and Direct Gain. This is to be achieved by a dualistic approach, combining quantitative and qualitative data to gain a holistic view of the situation. Quantitative data were collected from rooms built with the two different approaches. This information was used to determine the energy efficiency of each Passive Solar Design, and as a basis for building a numerical model that simulates the behaviour of Trombe Walls in conditions not observed during the data collection. Qualitative data were obtained through interviews with the residents of Passive Solar Houses in the villages of Palam and Khardong. The results show that Trombe Walls are significantly more effective at keeping a stable temperature than the Direct Gain technology. The interview responses verify and validate these findings whilst describing many positive effects of living in houses with Trombe Walls. Using the numerical model, it becomes apparent that increasing room size reduces the effectiveness of the Trombe Wall room. In conclusion, Passive Solar Housing can be, both from a social and economic perspective, a very effective method to maintain comfortable living conditions while reducing the environmental impact compared to traditional construction methods.32% av den globala energikonsumtionen kommer från energianvändning i byggnader. Det innebär att en betydande andel utsläpp av växthusgaser kommer från dem. Passivhus är en samling hållbara byggtekniker som använder solens energi för att värma upp eller kyla ner en levnadsyta utan att förlita sig på mekaniska eller elektriska medel. Denna studie ämnar utvärdera lämpligheten av Passivhus som en lösning på de uppvärmningsutmaningar som Ladakh, Indien ställs inför, vilket görs ur de miljömässiga, sociala, och ekonomiska hållbarhetsperspektiven. Två typer av Passivhus undersöks: Trombeväggar och Direct Gain. Metoden innefattar en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ datainsamling för att ge en heltäckande bild av situationen. Kvantitativa data insamlades i rum byggda med de två olika teknikerna – denna data användes sedan i en numerisk modell som simulerar hur en Trombevägg beter sig under omständigheter som inte direkt observerats inom ramen för denna studie. Kvalitativa data erhölls från intervjuer med invånarna av Passivhus i de två byarna Palam och Khardong. Resultaten påvisar att Trombeväggar är märkbart mer effektiva på att hålla en stabil inomhustemperatur jämfört med Direct Gain. Intervjusvaren verifierar och validerar resultaten samtidigt som de beskriver flertalet positiva följder av att bo i ett Passivhus. Genom att använda den numeriska modellen blir det tydligt att en ökning av storleken på rummen minskar Trombevägg - rummens förmåga att bibehålla en adekvat inomhustemperatur. Sammanfattningsvis kan Passivhus, från sociala och ekonomiska perspektiven, vara en mycket effektiv metod för att säkerställa tillfredställande levnadsvillkor, samtidigt som de har en mindre negativ påverkan på miljön än traditionella byggnadsmetoder.
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Heri, Alexandra Regina. "Geochemistry, geochronology and isotope geochemistry of eocene dykes intruding the Ladakh batholith." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50899624.
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Eocene dykes intruding the Ladakh batholith were sampled along the southern margin of the Trans-himalayan plutonic arc in Ladakh, NW-India. Approximately 30 dykes were encountered in the 40 km trail between Leh and Hemis Shugpachan. The dykes in the east of the field are trending E to NE and those in the west trending N to NW, exhibiting sub-parallel orientations within each area. Eighteen dykes were sampled (two of them multiple times) and subjected to petrographic, geochemical and isotopic analyses. They exhibit various degrees of differentiation from basaltic to rhyolitic compositions and are mainly composed of plagioclase, quartz, hornblende (s.l.) and/or biotite and magnetite. Furthermore, dykes in the eastern part of the field area contain quartz xenocrysts resulting from crustal assimilation, while no relict quartz was found in the west. The dykes exhibit alteration phases and features suggesting that they underwent autometamorphism, i.e. hydration reactions due to igneous cooling. Whereas the dykes in the east of the field area record low-T alteration, the mineral parageneses in the west are typical for alteration at elevated temperatures typical for greenschist metamorphic facies. Al-in-hornblende barometry performed on Magnesio-hornblende and Tschermakitic-hornblende phenocrysts of the least altered dyke indicates formation in upper-amphibolite metamorphic facies conditions and pressures of about 6 kbar corresponding to an intrusion depth of approximately 20 km.
Major and trace element analyses and Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotope analyses revealed a stunning variability in geochemistry and isotopic composition amongst the coeval dykes. All dykes exhibit LREE enrichment and HREE depletion as well as negative Tb and Nb anomalies characteristic for subduction-related intrusives and extrusives. Their REE patterns support a clear subdivision into chemically distinct groups. The group hypothesis was further tested and found valid using statistical tools designed to assess similarity/dissimilarity amongst individuals of a group with a common ancestor, such as hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. The dykes are cogenetic, but clearly not consanguineous, i.e. have not formed from one, progressively differentiating magma chamber.
The variability observed in Sr-Nd isotopes can be explained by the dykes having undergone differing degrees of crustal assimilation. In particular the dykes in the east containing quartz xenocrysts show negative iiNd) and positive N(Sr) values caused by crustal assimilation, whereas the dykes in the west with no quartz xenocrysts exhibit positive qqNd) and N(Sr) near zero. 39Ar-40Ar dating by incremental heating of several hornblende-bearing dykes revealed crystallization ages between 50 and 54 Ma, whereas two biotite-bearing dykes gave ages of 45 and 37 Ma, likely to be cooling or recrystallisation ages.
The combination of structural field evidence with petrographic, petrologic, geochemical, isotopic and geochronological analyses demonstrates that the dykes, although sharing a common origin, i.e. having formed in the same tectonic setting at roughly the same time, have undergone further geological processes leading to an unexpected diversification of the dykes. These findings provide ample scope for further in-depth and breadth investigations on “late-magmatic dykes” in the future.published_or_final_version
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Biswas, Tanushree. "Paradoxes of Conversion : Everyday Lives of Tibetan Buddhist Child Monks in Ladakh." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norsk senter for barneforskning, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-23735.
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Converting to modernity does not only imply changing what one does and how, rather it involves changes in one's relationship with existence as a whole. Every culture is founded upon metaphysical presuppositions which determine the way its people relate to each other including children and childhood, and the environment that they are part of. Consequently, I view cultures as an ecosystem. Restructuring and inserting new elements (schooling, tourism, consumer economy and so on) which are founded upon different metaphysical presuppositions cause a considerable strain on the roots of the ecosystem. This is especially true if the compatibility threshold between the two systems is low. Modernity is based on a linear understanding of causality, while the culture in question is founded on a cyclical understanding of causality. Some of the practical implications of this strain emerge in this study. The belief in rebirth and practices around it stem from a cyclical understanding of causality. No child is born a tabula rasa, and is in fact a continuation of previous cycles. For debates in childhood studies around the 'being and becoming' nature of children and childhood – this understanding opens the door to a fresh consideration – that both adults as well as children are processionary becomings. This does not imply a necessary acceptance of the hypothesis of rebirth, but discards the possibility of being born as a tabula rasa. As a young project, the thesis is unable to present a definition of childhood as distinct from adulthood. However, it takes the position that no one is born a tabula rasa. Monasteries are an indispensable part of Ladakh. Ladakh is a peaceful, high altitude culture on the Indo Tibetan border and is experiencing accelerated growth towards globalisation, predominant representatives of which are schooling, tourism and television. This qualitative project tries to understand the everyday lives of child monks in a monastery, who play a pivotal role in social reproduction in the region. The monastic community, known as the sangha becomes an extension of the family for these children. The relation between the sangha and the lay community is based on values of reciprocal generosity. Schooling occupies the biggest space as child monks follow government syllabus and guidelines. However, it is debatable whether this model of education is working for child monks and aiding them in performing their roles in a modern scenario. The monk, the school child and an exotic part of the touristscape are some identities that these children have to ebb and flow through. Seen within the context of globalisation and the crises that come along with it, the will of children to adopt lives of simplicity is perceived as valuable. At the same time the text acknowledges that becoming a standardised global child and being a monk at the same time is a highly challenging paradox.
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Pirie, Fernanda. "The fragile web of order : conflict avoidance and dispute resolution in Ladakh." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249857.
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Bridges, Alex Wallace. "Two Monasteries in Ladakh: Religiosity and the Social Environment in Tibetan Buddhism." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491502573183253.
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Henderson, Alexandra Louise. "The geology of the Indus Basin sedimentary rocks, Ladakh Himalaya, NW India." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547983.
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Labbal, Valérie. ""Travail de la terre, travail de la pierre". Des modes de mise en valeur des milieux arides par les sociétés himalayennes : L'exemple du Ladakh." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10046.
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Situé à l'extrémité occidentale du plateau tibétain, le Ladakh est une région nord-himalayenne aride dont la population s'est installée depuis des siècles le long du Haut Indus et des nombreux torrents d'origine nivale ou glaciaire. Cette région d'oasis aux confins des aires culturelles tibétaine, indienne et centre-asiatique est demeurée un royaume indépendant du 10e au 19e siècle. La thèse traite du mode de mise en valeur de ce milieu particulier par la société ladakhi en insistant sur l'articulation entre communautés rurales et pouvoir royal. Les modes de perception, d'organisation et d'exploitation du territoire ainsi que l'organisation sociale et religieuse des activités agricoles au sein d'une communauté oasienne sont décrits. En imposant un même modèle de gestion des ressources, en nommant des fonctionnaires villageois responsables de cet ordre et en s'appropriant un grand nombre de rituels agraires, le roi maîtrisait autrefois l'ensemble du processus de production. Qui plus est, par une qualité inhérente à sa personne, il influait de façon quasi-magique sur la reproduction ou non des conditions nécessaires à la prospérité. La thèse tente également de reconstituer les étapes de la mise en valeur du milieu à l'échelle locale puis régionale. Dans le Haut Ladakh, le peuplement se serait fait à l'origine par l'aménagement des vallées de torrent et de leurs cônes de déjection à l'aide de moyens simples et peu exigeants en travail. L'étude détaillée de la technologie hydraulique dans l'oasis de Sabu a permis de mettre en évidence le mode original de conquête du milieu mis en œuvre autrefois, consistant à valoriser les voies naturelles d'écoulement de l'eau et à domestiquer les eaux de crue. L'espace hydraulique s'avère être le résultat d'une construction progressive sans intention collective. L'ordre collectif aurait été instauré ultérieurement par le pouvoir royal. En revanche, ce pouvoir semble avoir joué un rôle moteur dans l'aménagement de la plaine de l'Indus.
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Arora-Jonsson, Sebastian. "A Study in Solar Housing Technology: The Impact of Trombe Walls in Ladakh." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279673.
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The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to examine the effect of installing a Trombe Wall in houses in Ladakh, India, and to evaluate its impacts for energy-saving, improvement in life quality, and its financial viability. Trombe Walls are a passive solar technology that use a dark wall with a glass covering to slowly heat living spaces by storing solar energy. Passive solar technology involves using the sun’s rays to heat or cool living areas without the aid of mechanical devices. In this thesis, two types of passive solar technologies are studied, Trombe Walls and direct gain technology. Direct gain technology is introduced in order to conduct a comparative study of Trombe Walls. Direct gain technology focuses on maximizing windows area to let in sunlight to warm the room. This was done through two-pronged approach. In a first quantitative step, data was collected from rooms heated by Trombe Walls and direct gain technology. In each room, data was recorded using temperature, humidity, pressure, and light sensors. This information was then used to analyze the indoor temperature of the rooms and calculate the solar radiation that hit the walls. This showed that Trombe Walls maintain a more stable indoor temperature as compared to direct gain technology, although often at the expense of the brightness of the room. Furthermore, a numerical model was developed to simulate the indoor temperature of a Trombe Wall. This quantitative analysis was complemented by a qualitative analysis where inhabitants from two villages in Ladakh were interviewed. All interviewees lived in houses heated by a Trombe Wall. The interviews show that Trombe Walls brings forth a myriad of positive effects, such as increasing indoor air temperature, improving air quality and generally raising the level of wellbeing in a family. Furthermore, a discussion of the economic feasibility of installing a Trombe Wall follows, to see if it is financially viable for villagers to adopt this technology. The Trombe Wall is analyzed as an investment using economic valuation tools such as the Internal Rate of Return method. Given current fiscal conditions in Ladakh, and that the lifespan of a Trombe Wall is at least 20 years, the Trombe Wall becomes a profitable investment for the individual if their required rate of return is less than 17 %. Lastly, this thesis concludes with a short discussion of how the quality of the data collected could be improved, as well as suggestions for future improvements to a Trombe Wall. Possible solutions are presented that might help make the Trombe Wall a more appealing heating solution and enable the technology to spread around the world.Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är att undersöka effekten av att installera en Trombe-vägg i hus i Ladakh, Indien och därigenom utvärdera dess bidrag till värmebesparing, förbättring av livskvaliteten och andra minskade kostnader. Trombeväggar använder en mörk vägg med en glasbeläggning för att långsamt värma upp hus genom att lagra solenergi. Trombe-väggar är en typ av passiv solteknik, en kategori som innefattar ett flertal olika teknologier som alla använder solens strålar för att värma eller kyla områden utan mekanisk hjälp. I denna uppsats studeras två typer av passiv solteknologi: Trombe-väggar och maximering av ljusinsläpp (Direct Gain Technology). Maximering av ljusinsläpp fokuserar på att tillföra så mycket solstrålning som möjligt in till rummet, och dessa studeras för att möjligöra en jämförande studie av Tromebväggens effekt. Studien utfördes i två steg. I ett första kvantitativt steg samlades data in från rum uppvärmda av Trombeväggar och maximering av ljusinsläpp. I varje rum registrerades data med hjälp av temperatur-, fuktighets-, tryck- och ljussensorer. Denna information användes sedan för att registrera rumstemperaturen inomhus och beräkna den mängd solstrålningen som träffade väggarna. Följande analys visade sedan att Trombe-väggar håller en mer stabil inomhustemperatur jämfört med maximering av ljusinsläpp, även om det ofta är på bekostnad av ljusstyrka. Dessutom gjordes ett försök att simulera inomhustemperaturen i ett Trombeväggs-rum med hjälp av en numerisk modell. Den kvantitativa analysen kompletterades i ett andra steg med en kvalitativ analys där invånare från två byar i Ladakh intervjuades. Alla intervjuade bodde i hus uppvärmda av Trombeväggar och hade begränsad tillgång till elektricitet. Intervjuerna visar att Trombe Walls ger upphov till en flertal positiva effekter, från att öka inomhuslufttemperaturen och förbättra luftkvaliteten till att höja välbefinnandet hos en familj. Därefter följer en ekonomisk analys av att installera en Trombevägg för att se om det är ekonomiskt lönsamt för bybor. Trombeväggar analyseras som en investering med hjälp av ekonomiska värderingsverktyg som IRR-metoden, Internal Return of Rate. Under antagandet att en Trombväggs livslängd är minst 20, är det en lönsam investering givet att en avkastningskravet på kapital är lägre än 17 %. Slutligen avslutas denna kandidatexamen med en kort diskussion om hur kvaliteten på de insamlade uppgifterna kan förbättras, samt förslag till framtida förbättringar av Trombeväggar. Möjliga lösningar presenteras som kan hjälpa till att göra Trombeväggar till en mer tilltalande värmelösning, och göra det möjligt för tekniken att spridas över hela världen.
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Bridges, Sarah Ann. "Disability in the Mountains: Culture, Environment, and Experiences of Disability in Ladakh, India." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1442843791.
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Pordié, Laurent. "La médecine des frontières : influences, humeurs et identités chez les amchi du Ladakh, Himalaya indien." Aix-Marseille 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX32082.
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Ce document offre l’une des premières études ethnographiques de la médecine tibétaine conduite pendant plusieurs années au sein d’un groupe réduit de praticiens. L’élite des thérapeutes (amchi) ladakhis constitue le groupe d’observation privilégié. Ces praticiens sont les agents principaux de la redéfinition sociale de cette médecine au Ladakh, au nord-ouest de l’Inde himalayenne. Ils élaborent le discours institutionnel sur la médecine tibétaine dans la région. Ce travail s’intéresse aux relations sociales qui composent ce groupe et aux comportements individuels, guidés par un ensemble variable d’enjeux et de valeurs, afin de comprendre les conditions sociales et économiques d’exercice du pouvoir, ainsi que le rôle des hiérarchies et des réseaux dans le fonctionnement du milieu étudié. Les chapitres sont organisés en cinq sections : les processus de sélection du pouvoir local et les principes de légitimation individuelle et collective, le caractère identitaire de la religion (bouddhisme et islam), le milieu associatif, les usages sociaux de la propriété intellectuelle et enfin, les ‘nouveaux guérisseurs’ tibétains. La conclusion explicite la notion de frontières donnée en intitulé. La géopolitique du Ladakh, les conquêtes de nouveaux espaces par les amchi, la protection du milieu et des savoirs, les limites entre milieux (rural/urbain, centre/périphérie), l’espace balisé de gestion du conflit, les relations sociales et leurs tensions produisent la médecine des frontièresThis thesis offers one of the first, long-term ethnography on a small group of practitioners of Tibetan medicine. The studied group concerns the elite practitioners of Ladakh, Northwestern India. These individuals are an influential minority which produces the institutional narratives on Tibetan medicine in the region and represents Ladakhi amchi in the political arena both at regional and national level. They largely contribute to the social redefinition of Tibetan medicine in the region. This work focuses on the social relations making up this group and on individual behaviour patterns, which, guided by a variable set of issues and values, help questioning the social and economic conditions of power, as well as the role of hierarchies and networks in the milieu studied. The chapters are organized into five sections: the selection process of local power and the principles of individual and collective legitimation, the identity dimension of religion (Buddhism and Islam), the social life of associations, the social uses of intellectual property, and finally, 'new practitioners’ of Tibetan medicine. The conclusion elucidates the notion of borders given in the title. The geopolitics of Ladakh, the new territories of the amchi, environmental protection and the preservation of knowledge, the boundaries between areas (rural/urban, center/periphery), the social and spatial dimension of conflict management, social relationships and the tensions they create all go towards producing this medicine at the borders
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Achenbach, Hermann. "Rekonstruktion der hochglazialen Vergletscherung für drei am oberen Indus gelegende Täler der Ladakh Range." Göttingen Cuvillier, 2006. http://d-nb.info/991005775/04.
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Hedrick, Kathryn. "Towards defining the transition in style and timing of Quaternary glaciation between the monsoon-influenced Greater Himalaya and the semi-arid Transhimalaya of Northern India." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1267115794.
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Dortch, Jason Michael. "Rates of landscape development in the Transhimalaya of northern India: a framework for testing the links among climate, erosion, and tectonics." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275916201.
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Smith, Sara Hollingsworth. "A Geopolitics of Intimacy and Anxiety: Religion, Territory, and Fertility in Leh District, Jammu and Kashmir, India." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194792.
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What happens when bodies are the territory through which geopolitical strategies play out? In the Leh district of India's contested Jammu and Kashmir State, religious identity has become politicized and Buddhist/Muslim conflict is being articulated at the site of the body. This dissertation contributes to political geography by exploring intimacy and fertility as geopolitical practice. In Leh, political conflict between Buddhists and Muslims is being enacted through women's bodies. Activist members of the Buddhist majority are encouraging Buddhist women to maximize fertility and avoid marrying Muslim men in order to maintain Buddhist electoral control. When women's bodies are instrumentalized and geopolitical strategy seeks to control desire, how do women cope with or resist these pressures? Can the body be an effective site of resistance against the politicization of religion and intimacy? My dissertation research consists of over 200 interviews and surveys of Buddhist and Muslim women in Leh district, as well as a participatory oral history project that engaged students in Leh with these difficult questions. The research explores how the politicization of marriage and fertility is affecting decision-making, how women negotiate religious and political pressures to participate in pro-natal territorial struggles, and how emergent geopolitical religious identities shape visions of the future.
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Reuber, Ingrid. "Géométrie et dynamique de l'accrétion dans les ophiolites téthysiennes : Himalaya du Ladakh, Oman et Turquie." Phd thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, 1990. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00667819.
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Les ophiolites présentent un grand interêt d'une part pour les reconstitutions géodynamiques des chaînes de montagnes, d'autre part pour l'étude détaillée des processus d'accrétion océanique. Ce memoire s'appuie principalement sur l'étude de trois terrains issus de la Téthys et présentant des caractères contrastés: - l'ophiolite de Semail, en Oman, est une des plus belles ophiolites du monde; sa taille permet la mise en évidence des variations longitudinales des processus d'accrétion à une échelle comparable à celle abordée dans les océans; - les ophiolites du Ladakh, préservées sous forme de klippes charriées sur la plaque indienne telle l'ophiolite de Spongtang, ou sous forme de petites écailles dans la suture et substratum de l'arc représentent des traceurs géodynamiques importants et indiquent des conditions opposées depuis l'accrétion jusqu'à l'obduction par rapport à l'ophiolite d'Oman; - les ophiolites tauriques présentent des caractère intermédiaires. Ce mémoire présente les résultats des études pétro-structurales menées dans ces ophiolites et les implications pour leur accrétion, leur histoire tectonique intra-océanique, et leur obduction. Les ophiolites omanaises présentent à l'affleurement une séquence souvent complète, et des structures témoignant d'un taux d'accrétion élévé. Les structures tranverses à l'axe sont rares et aucune n'interrompt la séquence crustale; les relations entre les différents faciès suggèrent une segmentation de la dorsale à l'échelle d'environ 30 km, qui évoluait avec le temps. A plusieurs endroits (Fizh, Haylayn) des 'overlaps' ou des 'propagating rifts' ont pu être mis en évidence. La séquence plutonique est constituée à part presques égales de gabbros et de wehrlites qui sont souvent interlités et pourraient représenter soit des ensembles de sills s'intrudant mutuellement, soit deux liquides coexistants mais immiscibles. Les structures internes de la série plutonique présentent souvent des variations et des images de recoupement à petite échelle; il est probable que ces variations reflètent la superposition de nombreuses petites chambres. Leur formation est expliquée par des cycles d'imprégnation de la zone de transition, celle-ci devenant périodiquement instable et intrudant la section crustale. Ces structures primaires sont en beaucoup d'endroits transposées par un flux visqueux, couplé avec le flux plastique des péridotites sous-jacentes. Ce couplage est particulièrement bien exprimé dans les gabbros de base, en contact direct avec les péridotites. Les autres ophiolites étudiées présentent des caractères bien différents, des séquences rarement complètes et des péridotites souvent moins déprimées, plus abondamment affectées par les zones de cisaillement lithophériques. La Klippe de Spongtang est composée essentiellement de péridotites, dans lesquelles les structures astenosphériques sont reprises par des zones de cisaillement s'organisant en deux familles: l'une à foliations sub-verticales et linéations sub-horizontales indiquant un mouvement décrochant, l'autre à structures sub-horizontales. Des wehrlites et gabbros peu repandus sont recoupés par des mini-complexes filoniens, orientés perpendiculairement aux cisaillements transverses. Ces structures suggèrent que l'accrétion de Spongtang eut lieu près de l'intersection d'une ride avec une zone transformante. Les facies et leur pétrologie présentent des caractères d'une ophiolite accrétée au droit d'une dorsale lente. Les critères structuraux et pétrologiques, ainsi que son âge crétacé inférieur, permettent de la comparer aux ophiolites Tibétaines, suggérant leur accrétion dans un domaine commun. L'obduction de la Klippe de Spongtang est tardive, contemporaine de la collision et résulte du glissement gravitaire d'un petit domaine océanique prédestiné par son relief, dans un bassin de mélanges dévelopé au pied de la marge passive de la platefrome nord-indienne. Ce scenario est complètement différent de celui proposé pour l'ophiolite omanaise. La zone de fracture d'Owen Chaman limite ici des domaines à evolutions différentes. Les structures des ophiolites tauriques suggèrent également une genèse dans un bassin océanique haché de zones transformantes, d'âge comparable à celles du Ladakh. Des cumulats bien développés, au moins localement, indiquent par contre un taux d'accrétion plus élevé. La tectonique intra-océanique est enregistrée par les cisaillements sub-horizontaux dans les amphibolites de semelle d'une part, et dans des brèches supraophiolitiques d'autre part.
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Bailey, Elizabeth A. "Testing models of ultra-fast India-Asia convergence : new paleomagnetic results from Ladakh, Western Himalaya." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90648.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2014.Author received an S.B. from the Department of Mathematics, but her thesis was submitted to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences for the degree of S.B. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-32).
Rapid India-Asia convergence has led to a major continental collision and formation of the Himalayas, the highest mountain range on Earth. Knowledge of the paleolatitude of the Kohistan-Ladakh Arc (KLA), an intermediate tectonic unit currently situated between the converging Indian and Eurasian continents in Western Himalaya, would constrain the tectonic history and dynamics of Himalayan orogenesis. We present new paleomagnetic data from the Khardung volcanic rocks of the Shyok-Nubra valley region of Ladakh, western Himalaya. Samples from all four sites (KP1-KP4) display high-temperature components indicating a roughly equatorial paleolatitude, with the average of site mean directions implying a paleolatitude of 5'N. We interpret results of a positive baked contact test at one site (KP3) to imply that the high-temperature components in the distal volcanic bedrock predate bedding tilt and dike formation. Previous studies of the Khardung unit (Bhutani 2009, Dunlap 2002) have measured 40Ar-39Ar and U-Pb dates of -52-67 Ma. Assuming these ages apply to our samples, our results support the two-stage collision model of Jagoutz and Royden (in prep), which indicates an approximately equatorial India-KLA collision at 50 Ma.
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Mills, Martin A. "Religious authority and pastoral care in Tibetan Buddhism : the ritual hierarchies of Lingshed Monastery, Ladakh." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21421.
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The thesis provides an ethnographic and anthropological account of Tibetan Buddhist ritual and monasticism in Lingshed village in Ladakh, North-West India. Two fundamental issues are addressed: firstly, the nature and form of religious and ritual care provided by the monks of Lingshed monastery to those villages in its vicinity which act as its patrons; secondly, the structure and ideology of Tibetan Buddhist notions and practices relating to ritual and religious authority, especially those of the Gelukpa Order of Tibetan Buddhism, of which Lingshed monastery is a part. Addressing the relationship between local understandings of the purposes and methods of Buddhism, the thesis presents a microscopic analysis of the relationship between ritual practice and indigenous notions concerning the person as ritual actor and the nature of divinity in Tantric Buddhism. It therefore includes an in-depth discussion of a series of ritual practices essential to Tibetan Buddhism in general, and to the monastery at Lingshed in particular, including rites to protector divinities and methods for cleansing ritual pollution. The work particularly highlights the practice of sangs-sol, that is offerings to local divinities, as performed by monastic personnel. As part of characterising the nature of religious authority in Tibetan Buddhism, the thesis discusses two dominant modes of religious and spiritual renunciation: clerical and tantric. The first of these two modes characterises the celibate monastic career of most members of the Gelukpa Order, whilst the second, tantric renunciation, refers to the employment of highly complex ritual techniques aimed at consubstantiating the practitioner with certain tantric deities. Since this latter method classically involves the use of sexual yoga, the thesis explores the manner in which such methods have been integrated into the strict celibate monasticism of the Gelukpa Order. The conclusion arising from this is that, the tension between tantric method and monasticism centres real ritual authority within the Gelukpa Order (and other forms of monastic Buddhism in Tibetan areas) onto a select group of 'incarnate lamas', who are therefore essential to the continued survival of the tradition.
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Le, Masson Virginie. "Exploring disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation from a gender perspective : insights from Ladakh, India." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7504.
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Both Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) aim at reducing the vulnerabilities and enhancing the capacities of men and women when facing natural hazards and climate change. Despite conceptual bridges existing between both sectors, the literature suggests a lack of practical integration of objectives and approaches in the design and implementation of climate change-related and DRR initiatives as well as a lack of attention to gender issues. In parallel, studies repeatedly stress the necessity to (i) provide more empirical studies that re-contextualise climate change as just one of many issues faced on a daily basis by local communities, and (ii) emphasise the gender dimension of vulnerability to understand differences between men’s and women’s realities in relation to disasters and climate change. This research explores the local dimension of the (lack of) integration of DRR and CCA through using gender as a lens. It uses the case study of the Himalayan province of Ladakh in India where the predicted impacts of climate change could seriously undermine inhabitants’ access to water. Embedded within the theoretical frames of DRR and feminist political ecology, this research draws on concepts of gender, marginalisation, vulnerability and capacity in order to understand the local impacts of environmental degradation and the implications for policies and development projects. When analysing the ways in which Ladakhi communities experience climate change and natural hazards in relation to their everyday risks, the vulnerability and capacity assessment conducted in this research shows that men and women face different everyday constraints which shape their views of their environment. The gender sensitive methodology and analysis also contribute to focus the attention away from hazards to emphasise the way people’s vulnerabilities are inherently linked to unsustainable development which stresses the importance of designing integrated responses. Yet, when examining current interventions to tackle disaster risk and climate change in relation to Ladakhi communities’ contexts, priorities and needs, a focus on gender and DRR highlights the gap between theories, policies and practices. Evidence from Ladakh contributes to show the dichotomy between the ineffectiveness of top-down interventions targeting climate change and disasters, and the gendered experiences of local communities in the face of a multitude of everyday risks that extend beyond climate change and natural hazards. Current DRR and CCA policies and projects reproduce a dominant focus on hazards and do not challenge established development models that are male-dominated and which promote people’s (and disproportionately women’s) vulnerability. However, development interventions, in the context of Ladakh, appear more adequate to improve people’s livelihoods with greater scope for inputs from the community level, which contribute to enhancing their capacities. Therefore, this thesis argues that emphasis should be placed on sustainable development practices in order to better address disaster risk and climate change as well as communities’ everyday risks. It finally underscores the need to recognise and assess the interconnection of different structures and their impacts on people’s daily lives at the onset of development strategies and to ensure that these are part of a sustainable, holistic and integrated approach to reducing vulnerability.
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Hobley, Daniel E. J. "Dynamics of long term fluvial response in postglacial catchments of the Ladakh Batholith, Northwest Indian Himalaya." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4929.
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Upland rivers control the large-scale topographic form of mountain belts, allow coupling of climate and tectonics at the earth’s surface and are responsible for large scale redistribution of sediment from source areas to sinks. However, the details of how these rivers behave when perturbed by changes to their boundary conditions are not well understood. I have used a combination of fieldwork, remotely sensed data, mathematical analysis and computer modelling to investigate the response of channels to well constrained changes in the forcings upon them, focussing in particular on the effects of glacial remoulding of the catchments draining the south flank of the Ladakh batholith, northwest Indian Himalaya. The last glacial maximum for these catchments is atypically old (~100 ka), and this allows investigation of the response to glaciation on a timescale not usually available. The geomorphology of the catchments is divided into three distinct domains on the basis of the behaviour of the trunk stream – an upper domain where the channel neither aggrades above or incises into the valley form previously carved by glacial abrasion, a middle domain where the channel incises a gorge down into glacial sediments which mantle the valley floor, and a lower domain where the channel aggrades above this postglacial sediment surface. This landscape provides a framework in which to analyze the processes and timescales of fluvial response to glacial modification. The dimensions of the gorge and the known dates of glacial retreat record a time averaged peak river incision rate of approximately 0.5 mm/y; the timescale for the river long profile to recover to a smooth, concave up form must exceed 1 Ma. These values are comparable with those from similarly sized catchments that have been transiently perturbed by changing tectonics, but have never been quoted for a glacially forced basin-scale response. I have also demonstrated that lowering of the upper reaches of the Ladakh channel long profiles by glacial processes can systematically and nonlinearly perturb the slope-area (concavity) scaling of the channel downstream of the resulting profile convexities, or knickzones. The concavity values are elevated significantly above the expected equilibrium values of 0.3-0.6, with the magnitude controlled by the relative position of the knickzone within the catchment, and thus also by the degree of glacial modification of the fluvial system. This work also documents the existence of very similar trends in measured concavities downstream of long profile convexities in other transiently responding river systems in different tectonoclimatic settings, including those responding to changes in relative channel uplift. This previously unrecognised unity of response across a wide variety of different environments argues that such a trend is an intrinsic property of river response to perturbation. Importantly, it is consistent with the scaling expected from variation in incision efficiency driven by evolving sediment flux downstream of knickzones. The pervasive nature of this altered scaling, and its implications for fluvial erosion laws in perturbed settings, have significant consequences for efforts to interpret past changes in forcings acting on river systems from modern topography. I follow this by examining in detail the channel hydraulics of the Ladakh streams as they incise in response to the glacial perturbation. I present a new framework under which the style of erosion of a natural channel can be characterized as either detachment- or transport-limited based upon comparison of the downstream distribution of shear stress with the resulting magnitude of incision. This framework also allows assessment of the importance of sediment flux driven effects in studied channels. This approach is then used to demonstrate that fluvial erosion and deposition in the Ladakh catchments is best modelled as a sediment flux dependent, thresholded, detachment-limited system. The exceptional quality of the incision record in this landscape enables an unprecedented calibration of the sediment flux function within this incision law for three different trunk streams. The resulting curves are not compatible with the theoretically-derived parabolic form of this relation, instead showing nonzero erosion rates at zero sediment flux, a rapid rise and peak at relative sediment fluxes of less than 0.5 and a quasi exponential decrease in erosional efficiency beyond this. The position of the erosional efficiency peak in relative sediment flux space and the magnitude of the curve are shown to be both variable between the catchments explored and also correlated with absolute sediment flux in the streams.
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Ahmed, Monisha. ""We are warp and weft" - nomadic pastoralism and the tradition of weaving in Rupshu (Eastern Ladakh)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0153c1e6-8bc1-4c95-aa7c-8f586a45772d.
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This thesis, based on twelve months of fieldwork and archival research undertaken in Ladakh, explores the place of wool and weaving in the life of Rupshu. It attempts to trace the nexus between livestock, fibres, textiles, social and symbolic structures in Rupshu in order to understand the multitude of contexts within which wool-oriented activities exist. The craft of weaving was bestowed upon Rupshu by the gods, and thus all acts related to it have a close connection to the sublime. Rupshu lies in the easternmost part of Ladakh in North India, in a Restricted Areas Zone, as is accessible only to Indian citizens. Hence, extensive fieldwork has not been carried out in this area. Further, though there is a little documentation on the craft of weaving in Ladakh, none exists on the nomadic tradition of weaving. The first two chapters introduce the region of Rupshu and explore the historical context. They include a discussion of the origin and development of weaving and textiles in the area, and of the old trade routes in fibres. The next two chapters examine the connections between livestock, the source of fibres in Rupshu, and the Ladakh pantheon. The relationship between the two is reflected in the manner in which livestock are revered and treated in Rupshu. Further, this affinity is widely expressed in Rupshu, and one such occasion is the harvesting of the fibres. The next four chapters look specifically at the craft of weaving, and local representations of the tradition. Using examples of particular pieces woven in Rupshu, I examine the gender, spatial, and hierarchical relations that they express and perpetuate. Not all the fibres harvested in Rupshu are used there, and the final chapter examines their distribution through trade. While woven articles are not traded, specific containers are woven for the transport of fibres and their characteristics are looked at here. The concluding remarks include a discussion of the future of wool and weaving activities in Rupshu, and address the dangers posed by re-settlement schemes, and a shortage of pasture and over-grazing. These trends would eventually lead to a decrease in the number of livestock, and cause the people of Rupshu to abandon their tradition of nomadic pastoralism.
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Pearce, Callum. "Outside the palace, the night : spirits, landscape and perception among Buddhist laity in Ladakh, Himalayan India." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=234058.
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This thesis deals with the perception and representation of spirits and landscape among Tibetan Buddhist laity in Ladakh, Himalayan India. It contrasts the conventions of Tibetan textual description of places with stories told by Ladakhi Buddhist laity, with a focus on the role played by local spirits and deities. It argues that while textual representations employing the unified and symmetrical imagery of the maṇḍala – a schematic representation of the palace of a divinity – depict the landscape as it might be known to a transcendent observer, stories about places and the spirits associated with them (lhande in Ladakhi) point to an indeterminate, fragmented and culturally unbounded world that has yet to be integrated within any single system of knowledge. This world is pieced together from multiple sources and truth claims, and from the imperfections inherent in ordinary perception; but the inconsistencies and uncertainties involved in this are not usually apparent, and are only made manifest in illness, experiences of disorder and encounters with spirits at night. These persistent uncertainties can be overcome in ritual contexts, in acts of writing or through the invocation of the faculty of divine vision: the palatial image of the maṇḍala is used to counteract the presence of the night outside. This thesis draws attention to the often overlooked role played by the limitations of perception and knowledge in understandings of landscape, and is intended to partly bridge a disciplinary divide by reconstructing the invisible context within which textual representations are created and employed.
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St-Louis, Antoine. "Écologie du kiang au Ladakh : Sélection des ressources, approvisionnement et comportement social d'un équidé méconnu du plateau tibétain." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27041/27041.pdf.
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Corfield, Richard I. "Origin and emplacement of the Spontang ophiolite and crustal shortening processes in the Ladakh-Zanskar Himalaya, NW India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298779.
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Trewin, Arthur Mark. "Rhythms of the gods : the musical symbolics of power and authority in the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh." Thesis, City University London, 1995. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7935/.
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This thesis is a cultural study of music in Ladakh ("Indian Tibet"). Drawing upon interdisciplinary theories in symbolic anthropology and musicology, the study stresses the primacy of symbolic action as a means of defining and controlling social reality, and proceeds to examine the relationship between the activation of musical structures and the social construction of power and authority, in terms of the generation of meaning. Ladakhi music is particularly suited to this kind of study because the instrumental genre of lha-rnga (literally "god-drumming") was once closely linked to the structure of Ladakhi society as a feudal monarchy legitimated by Buddhist authority. This music, associated with the personification of deities or the divine aspects of certain mortal beings, constitutes a 'code' which, in the context of public ritual and royal ceremonial, represents and sustains political authority by embodying aspects of the ideal, transcendental order. Building upon Sherry Ortner's concept of cultural schemata, it is shown how music provides the key to 'naturalising' or 'grounding' these more or less predictable programmes of symbolic action in emotional experience, so that through the patronage of performance, those in authority can manipulate the conduct of their subjects or rivals in expected ways. In supporting cultural schemata, public musical performance also constitutes a mechanism for dealing with conflict and change, as historically demonstrated by the way in which the later dynastic kings used music to negotiate the perceived Islamic threat from Kashmir and Turkestan. Supported by the analysis of rhythmic structures, in conjunction with historical, organological and iconographic evidence, it is proposed that forms of military and chivalrous music of West Asian origin have been accommodated by the indigenous Buddhist tradition: to the external Mughal authorities, this represented the incorporation of Ladakh into their political framework, but the Ladakhi monarchs presented this phenomenon as the meaningful incorporation of the symbols of Islamic rule into a theoretically Immutable Buddhist cosmological order. The research is intended, in part, to complement existing work in Indian and Tibetan music, which has hitherto mainly concentrated on liturgical or classical traditions, and which has tended to overlook the role of the 'living', regional traditions in Indo-Tibetan culture. On a theoretical level, the study also aims to further understanding of the dynamics of culture change and continuity, and to develop lines of enquiry aimed at bridging the gap between musicological and anthropological contexts of explanation.
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Besch, Nils F. "Tibetan medicine off the roads modernizing the work of the Amchi in Spiti /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-78938.
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フィリップ, マッテュ, and Philip Mathew. "Politicization of religious and cultural identity in Kashmir conflict 1989-2011 : a case study of the Kashmir minority communities of Leh (Ladakh)." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12630561/?lang=0, 2013. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12630561/?lang=0.
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Rieger-Jandl, Andrea. "Living culture in the Himalayas : anthropological guidelines for building in developing countries /." Wien : WUV, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014192444&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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REVERMAN, REBECCA L. "The High-Pressure Karla Tectonic Unit:A Remnant Shear Zone associated with the Ultra-High Pressure Tso Morari Dome, eastern Ladakh (India), NW Himalaya." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212094179.
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Reverman, Rebecca L. "The high-pressure Karla tectonic unit a remnant shear zone associated with the ultra-high pressure Tso Morari dome, eastern Ladakh (India), Nw Himalaya /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1212094179.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Advisor: Craig Dietsch. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Sep. 4, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: High-Pressure; blueschist; Tso Morari; Himalaya. Includes bibliographical references.
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Butcher, Andrea. "Keeping the faith : an investigation into the ways that Tibetan Buddhist ethics and practice inform and direct development activity in Ladakh, North-West India." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=201853.
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The thesis examines the encounter between the normative ideology of sustainable development on the one hand, and Buddhist Ladakh’s older ceremonial landscape on the other, whereby the reproduction of material and religious life is managed with the assistance of enlightened monastic rulers, transcendental Buddhist protector deities, sacred technology, and supernatural beings inhabiting the landscape. It narrates the religious historical discourse of a decline into an “era of demerit”, evidenced through aspects of economic and technological transformation, increasing climate instability, and the threat of conflict along the disputed national borders with Pakistan and China. It examines also the participation of supernatural beings in the political landscape; as guardians of religious law, governors of weather, and landlords of the soil and water, supernatural beings can dictate the delivery of development by punishing transgressions that upset the moral order or pollute their abodes. This was profoundly experienced when Ladakh’s settlements were devastated by a cloud burst and flooding previously unwitnessed, and expressed locally as a sign of religious demerit and supernatural retribution for ritually and morally unchecked social transformation. When this occurs, ritual intervention from monastic specialists is required to restore order. The thesis is thus an account of two distinct approaches to history operating in the same social and political landscape: an objective, evidential account of history in which progress is determined by the existence of a rationally-organised modern economy and bureaucratic structures of governance; and a mythical historical narrative of progress and decline, requiring ceremonial offering and ritual intervention to maintain blessing and prevent religious decline. It examines how the two approaches to history and governance combine to produce a locally-contextualised modern identity in which the discourses and technologies of modern government are utilised to ensure that the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, and their attendant ceremonies, remain relevant in the contemporary era.
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Sutre, Eric. "Les formations de la marge néotethysienne et les mélanges ophiolitiques de la zone de suture de l'Indus en Himalaya du Ladakh - Inde. - Stratigraphie, tectonique, évolution géodynamique." Phd thesis, Université de Poitiers, 1990. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00805270.
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Dans la zone de suture de l'Indus en l'Himalaya du Ladakh, l'étude lithostratigraphique, biostratigraphique, sédimentologique, pétrographique et structurale, conduit à différencier plusieurs catégories d'unités: - les unités appartenant à la marge nord néotéthysienne ; - des témoins de l'espace océanique néotéthysien ; - des unités de marge distale sud néotéthysienne (nord-indienne), Ces données, associées à une interprétation en terme de stratigraphie séquentielle, permettent de préciser la paléogéographie du Bloc du Ladakh avant et pendant la subduction de la Néotéthys sous l'Eurasie, puis d'envisager son évolution structurale pendant la collision. * Avant la subduction, le bloc du Ladakh, situé vers l'équateur, se présentait sous la forme d'une vaste étendue de lithosphère océanique d'âge jurassique , moyen englobant quelques témoins isolés de nature continentale. * Le volcanisme d'arc y a débuté au Crétacé inférieur, avant l'Aptien (probablement au Barrémien), soit plus tôt que dans le Bloc de Lhasa (Albien). Les premiers épanchements volcaniques sous-marins voisinaient avec des turbidites volcano-sédimentaires et des flyschs à blocs, * Développement de l'arc insulaire : pendant la période Aptien-Albien inférieur se sont déposées, dans les bassins, des turbidites volcanodétritiques. Simultanément, des plates-formes carbonatées à rudistes s'installaient sur le pourtour des parties émergées de l'arc, Ensuite, tandis que les régions de l'arc intrudée par les plutons se soulevaient, le bassin d'avant-arc s'enfonçait, et voyait le développement des cônes sous-marins. Ce type de sédimentation s'est poursuit jusqu'au Paléocène supérieur, * Derniers dépôts marins: à partir de la fin du Paléocène le bassin d'avant-arc devint le siège d'une épaisse sédimentation marine infra à supra-littorale détritique, admettant des passées lenticulaires de calcaires bioclastiques. A la fin de l'Eocène inférieur, le bassin marin résiduel situé entre les deux marges disparut brutalement, sous l'effet conjugué de la collision et d'un pic régressif eustatique accusé. * structuration pendant la collision: la partie sud du bassin d'avant-arc fut affectée par des chevauchements vers le Sud. Ensuite, les unités structurales ainsi crées furent redressées et basculées vers le Nord. Dans la zone de suture s'individualisa alors le bassin des formations continentales d'épisuture, dont le substratum était constitué d'unités structurales des deux anciennes marges. Au cours des stades ultimes du serrage, cet ensemble fut affecté par des charriages à vergence nord.
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Sutre, Eric. "Les formations de la marge nord-néotethysienne et les melanges ophiolitiques de la zone de suture de l'indus en Himalaya du Ladakh, Inde : stratigraphie, tectonique, évolution géodynamique." Poitiers, 1990. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00805270.
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Dans la zone de suture de l'indus en himalaya du ladakh, l'etude lithostratigraphique, biostratigraphique, sedimentologique, petrographique et structurale, conduit a differencier plusieurs categories d'unites: 1) les unites appartenant a la marge nord neotethysienne; 2) des temoins de l'espace oceanique neotethysien; 3) des unites de marge distale sud neotethysienne (nord-indienne). Ces donnees, associees a une interpretation en terme de stratigraphie sequentielle, permettent de preciser la paleogeographie du bloc du ladakh avant et pendant la subduction de la neotethys sous l'eurasie, puis d'envisager son evolution structurale pendant la collision entre l'inde et l'eurasie, c'est-a-dire pendant l'orogenese himalayenne
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Gilbert, Eric. "Evolution structurale d'une chaîne de collision structures et déformation dans le nord de la plaque indienne en Himalaya du Ladakh, Cristallin du Haut Himalaya et séries téthysiennes." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37598042x.
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