Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.

Sophie Day is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths University, UK.

1 Ladakh's Houses

2 Ritual Houses

3 "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change"

4 Once the Wealthiest Tent in Kharnak

5 Making a photobook with Deen Khan

6 An Empty House?

7 Nyarma: the nuns' house

8 Going it Alone: Angmo's Leh House

9 The Skarra chorten (st¿pa)

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