Includes chapters on Nomadic Economy, annual migration, pastoral allocation, horses, livestock in the pastoral community, herders and daily herding, diet, hunting, Cultural Revolution and Pastoral Communes, China's post-cultural Revolution, economic and social change, conservation of the environment. As the first Western scientists allowed to conduct in-depth research in Tibet in decades, Goldstein and Beall were given the opportunity to study firsthand and long-term the traditional lifestyles of the nomad's of Pala, a remote district on Tibet's western plateau.