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ABSTRACT SIR CHARLES BELL has written a most interesting and very well illustrated book on the mode of life and domestic customs of the Tibetans which may be accepted as authoritative. The

shepherds and herdsmen are probably the purest specimens of the race. The inclement conditions, especially hailstorms, render the peasants' life a hard one. There is a great gulf

between these classes and the nobility: the trading community lorms a middle class, but with little power; the foreign trade is in their hands, and even the nobility have their commercial

agents, for the Tibetan is a born trader. Begging is a hereditary profession, but the monks who go a-begging are on a different footing. There are few countries where women have so good a

position, and they are active and shrewd in business matters. Monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry are all found in Tibet, but on the whole monogamy is more prevalent. The People of Tibet. By

Sir Charles Bell. Pp. xix + 319 + 57 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 21_s_. net. ARTICLE PDF RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT

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