The Sherthukpens, a mild mannered and courteous people, inhabit the Rupa region
in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. Very few scholars have
attempted to map the Sherthukpen society in detail and those who have done so
have tended to club them with their more populous neighbors the Monpas. This
book documents the vibrant culture and rich diversity of the Sherthukpens and
their society, sustained in a land characterized by high mountain hamlets with
precarious wooden houses clinging to wind-swept hill spines.