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Ladakh's geographic location between the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains has exposed it to competing political and cultural influences from India, Central Asia and Tibet. This book points to Ladakh's distinct local identity, but argues that its historical development can best be understood in a wider regional perspective. It contains twenty-five research papers from the International Association of Ladakh Studies (IALS), and draws on contributions from historians, art historians, linguists and anthropologists. Their sources include Ladakhi historical documents, comparative linguistic research, visual evidence from temple architecture and inscriptions, Mughal biographies, European travel accounts, government records, trade receipts, and local oral tradition. Taken together, the volume provides a much richer view of Ladakhi history than was previously available, and makes a significant contribution to the study of the wider Himalayan region.

Ladākh (India) --- La-dwags (India) --- Ladākh District (India) --- Ladākh Tahsil (India) --- Laddākha (India) --- Laddakh (India) --- History. --- Collection of essays. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Union Territory of Ladākh (India) --- Ladakh (India)

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Andrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude populations, smaller still than those in sea level regions. Factors such as hypoxia, dietary patterns, the burden of women's work, gender, infectious diseases, seasonality, and use of local health resources all affect a newborn's birth weight and raise the likelihood of infant mortality. An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy is unique in that it makes use of the methods of human biology but strongly emphasizes the ethnographic context that gives human biological measures their meaning. It is an example of a new genre of anthropological work: 'ethnographic human biology'.

Medical anthropology --- Infants --- Altitude, Influence of --- Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Acclimatization --- Atmospheric pressure --- Medical climatology --- Babies --- Infancy --- Children --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Mortality --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Physiological effect --- Anthropological aspects --- Ladākh (India) --- Environmental conditions. --- La-dwags (India) --- Ladākh District (India) --- Ladākh Tahsil (India) --- Laddākha (India) --- Laddakh (India) --- Social Sciences --- Union Territory of Ladākh (India) --- Ladakh (India)