LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven hours ...

This video explores a remote area of China often called its “hidden Tibet,” where real Tibetan nomads still live. We document their daily routines, environment, and cultural lifestyle in the highlands ...

Another harsh winter this year in the part of the Tibetan Plateau that is located in Nepal’s Upper Mustang region has resulted in a massive loss of livestock. Mustang’s nomads have been particularly ...

DAMSHUNG, Tibet — For centuries, change came only with the seasons to Tibet’s alpine grasslands, painted rusty yellow in winter and emerald green in summer. Yaks and sheep roamed free in lush pastures ...

Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad's way of life has changed in hundreds of years. Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope ...

From its opening moments, when a camera follows a Tibetan nomad riding a horse across a rocky, windswept hilltop, "The Saltmen of Tibet" reveals a landscape and a people that are rarely seen by ...

Please join us for the opening reception of Daniel Miller’s exhibition and talk on 'Searching for Grass and Water: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya' in Norlin Library’s Underground West ...

For decades he and his wife grazed yaks and sheep, living a life little changed in centuries, until they acquiesced three years ago to government calls to give up their yak-hair tents for permanent ...

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to ...

An industrial construction site on the upper Mekong, with a Tibetan village on the opposite bank, 2011. Credit: Scott Ezell In 2004, I traveled a thousand miles in the eastern Tibetan plateau by local ...

In the summer of 1985, Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, was crossing northern Tibet in a borrowed jeep. It was his first journey to the Changtang, a vast ...