Human-Animal relations in Tibet and the Himalayas

HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS IN TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS
Session #3 | 3:30pm - 5pm | Saturday, Sept 2 | HUMN 125

Tashi Tsering, Mount Royal University
Yak Dung: Understanding Society-Nature Relationship in Tibetan Societies

Tshewang Wangchuk, University of Montana
Sarah Halvorson, University of Montana
Scott Mills, University of Montana
Formulating a new narrative of human-snow leopard interactions in the Jomolhari region, Northwest Bhutan

Jon Miceler, World Wildlife Fund
Whose Snow Leopards Are They Anyway?: Towards a tripartite snow leopard conservation template in the Kangchenjunga region of Nepal, India and China.

Nivedita Nath, UCLA
Who’s Holy Cow is it Anyway? Towards a Haptic History of Human-Animal Interactions in the Western Himalaya