From a Trickle to a Torrent : Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal.
What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the demographic and social consequences of educational migration from Nubri, a Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal. The authors explore parents' mo...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; From a Trickle to a Torrent; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Predicaments, Presumptions, and Procedures; An Empty Nest; The Enduring Yet Ephemeral Village; Managing the Family through Migration; Studying Longitudinal Change; The Household as a Unit of Analysis; 2. Moving In before Moving Out; A Peripheral Region of Darkness; Excavating the Ethnic Strata; The Center Comes to the Periphery; Completing the Buddhist Transformation; Conquest and Indirect Rule; Continuity amid Political Change; Contemporary Convulsions.
- 3. Embedding the Household in the VillageRituals of Protection; The Household in Demography, Anthropology, and Nubri; Binding Households through Religious Cooperation; Liturgy, Income, and Mobility; 4. Whither the Young People?; Portents of a Barley Harvest; Tibetan Exiles and the Emergence of Migration Pull Factors; The Demography of Supply and Demand; The Pathways and Magnitude of Outmigration; 5. Becoming Monks; Family Obligations versus Religious Aspirations; Between Ontological Realms; On the Merits of Monastic Migration; Childhood Inclinations and Monastic Migration.
- Religious Networks and Migration DestinationsThe Revival of Mass Monasticism; 6. Becoming Nuns; The Nun Serves Her Family; From Servant (yogmo) to Disciple (lobma); Pathways to Celibacy; Gender and the Precariousness of Virtue; Demise of the Village Nun?; 7. Becoming Students; The Son Goes First; Educating Nubri Children: A Fitful Start; Valuing Education; The Efficacy of Strong and Weak Ties; Reproducing Inequality?; 8. The Household Succession Quandary; A Monk Returns; The Educated Son Conundrum; The Educated Daughter Dilemma; Unbecoming Monks.
- Monks and the Evolving Family Management Strategy9. The Transformative Potential of Educational Migration; The Lama Goes, the Lama Returns; Independent Child Migration and Fosterage; Educational Migration and Demographic Change; Marital Endogamy and the Margins of Choice; Marriage and the Misappropriation of Modernity; 10. Nubri Futures?; Vacating the Realm of Religious Practitioners; The Predicament of Aging; From Householder Lamas to Celibate Monks; The Communal Obligation Impasse; Disembedding the Younger Generation; Parting Thoughts; Appendix: The Population of Nubri; Notes.
- Glossary of Tibetan TermsReferences; Index.