From a trickle to a torrent : education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal...
From a trickle to a torrent : education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal...
From a trickle to a torrent : education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal / Geoff Childs, Namgyal Choedup.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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G 2019/0183
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English
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Physical content
xv, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Predicaments, presumptions, and procedures -- Moving in before moving out -- Embedding the household in the village -- Whither the young people? -- Becoming monks -- Becoming nuns -- Becoming students -- The household succession quandary -- The transformative potential of educational migration -- Nu...
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"What happens to a community when the majority of young people move away for education? In Nubri, an ethnic Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal, educational migration (the sending of children to distant institutions for schooling) has become a key component of a family management strategy that is driven by the prospect of social and economic...
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From a trickle to a torrent : education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal / Geoff Childs, Namgyal Choedup.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/0183
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74VKV0z60pJy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0z60pJy
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ISBN
0520299523 paperback ; alkaline paper
9780520299511 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0520299515 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780520299528 paperback ; alkaline paper
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306.43095496
MMS ID
991024225019702626
