PANEL 9 – DECLINE AND LOCAL INNOVATION IN THE PASTORAL SOCIETY OF AMDO

FRIDAY 24 JUNE (Room 304B)

Conveners: Yusuke Bessho and Izumi Hoshi.

9.00-9.15: Opening of panel

9.15-9.45: Takayoshi Yamaguchi: Systematic classification of pastoral vocabulary in the nomadic region of Amdo.

9.45-10.15: Masahiro Hirata: Flexibility of milk processing system by Amdo Tibetan pastoralists.

10.15-10.45: Shiho Ebihara: Richness of Tibetan nomadic vocabulary and its loss.

10.45-11.15: Namthar Gyel: དེང་རབས་འབྲོག་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་སྦྲ་ནག་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་ཉམས་རྒུད་དང་བསྐྱར་ཕུབ་ཀྱི་རེ་བ་གསར་བ།

11.15-11.45: Tea and coffee break

11.45-12.15: Yusuke Bessho: Reformation of tsha ru: traditional Tibetan clothing and its innovation in contemporary Amdo.

12.15-12.45: Izumi Hoshi: Local innovations in dairy processing based on the rediscovery of traditional values.

12.45-13.15: Discussion.