Pastures of change contemporary adaptations and transformations among nomadic pastoralists of Eastern Tibet

Changes in availability of land and labor translated into competition for resources, which ultimately determined pastoral viability in western Iran. Of particular concern to this book's argument is the extent to which the introduction of key trade items between Lhasa and China could, historically, have altered the way of life and viability of pastoralism in eastern Tibet. The early presence of trade items indicates that pastoralists of eastern Tibet encountered products of change from an early ...