This is the first book to combine essays on the history and ongoing production of art in Ladakh and to recognize both Buddhist and Islamic contributions to the cultural environment. Drawing on recent research in the region, Ladakh: Culture at the Crossroads covers subjects ranging from the analysis of key sites duct research in the Himalayas.

Ladakh: Culture at the Crossroads, Ahmed and Harris, Marg Publications, Mang Publications, 124 pp. $60.00

Monisha Ahmed is an independent researcher based in Mumbai, with a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She has been visiting and writing about Ladakh since 1987, spending several months of every year there, researching its material culture. Clare Harris is Curator for Asia at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Lecturer and Fellow, School of Anthropology, Magdalen College, Oxford. She is currently the director of a major research project, “Tibet Visual History Online,” and continues to conduct research in the Himalaya

	Contents: Ladakh: Culture at the Crossroads
	Introduction	10
	House and Fortress: Traditional Building in Buddhist Ladakh	20
	Islamic Architecture in Ladakh	34
	Metalworking in Ladakh	44
	The Turquoise Headdress of Ladakh	56
	Textile Arts of Ladakh: Nomadic Weaves to Silk-Brocades	66
	Reshaping Tradition: The Life and Work of Nawang Tsering	82
	A Short Biography of a Contemporary Buddhist Painter	94
	Recent P:ainting Traditions of Ladakh: Central Tibetan Styles in Far Western Tibet	104
	Index	122