VISHNUIAS.COM WE PROVIDE A PATH FOR YOUR SUCCESS ANTHROPOLOGY SNIPPET-343 (Welcome To Vishnu IAS online ) (Research and Training Institute for the best civil services preparation in India) http://vishnuias.com/ 1 CHANGPA TRIBE : The Changpa are a semi-nomadic Tibetan people found mainly in the Changtang in Ladakh and in Jammu and Kashmir. A smaller number resides in the western regions of the Tibet Autonomous Region and were partially relocated for the establishment of the Changtang Nature Reserve. As of 1989 there were half a million nomads living in the Changtang area. OCCUPATION The Changpa of are high altitude pastoralists, raising mainly yaks and goats. WO DIVISIONS : Among the Ladakh Changpa, those who are still nomadic are known as Phalpa, and they take their herds from in the Hanley Valley to the village of Lato. 2 Hanley is home to six isolated settlements, where the sedentary Changpa, the Fangpa reside. MARRAIGE : Despite their different lifestyles, both these groups intermarry. LANGUAGE : The Changpa speak Changskhat, a dialect of Tibetan, and practice Tibetan Buddhism. PASHMINA WOOL The Changpas rear the highly pedigreed and prized Changra goats (Capra Hircus) that yield the rare Pashmina fibre (Cashmere wool). The Cashmere goats (Changra goats) are not raised for their meat but for their fibre (pashm). The pashmina fibre (Pashm in Persian) is the finest fibre of all goat hair. This tribe’s motto could be ‘work hard, play hard’, because the Changpa pursue a clear goal: to work as much as possible in the summer months, and to relax in winter, when it’s not possible to work due to the extreme low temperatures. 3 .