Research On Changes Of Livelihood And Psychological Adjustment Of Nomads-

Nowadays, most of nomads in North China face a tremendous transition of development, like nationalities of Tibetans, Mongols, Yugurs and Kazaks, some of these minorities are under transition from nomads to farming.Nomads have their unique ways of life, living space, national culture, social structure and national psychologies. And their ways of life passed from generation to generation are broken by ecological environment protection, social development and related policy projects trying to improve their ways of life, which means some people have been undergoing transition that their ways of life, living space, traditional culture and national psychology have been changed and, they have to change their ways of life and living space and refresh their traditional culture, and finally to form a new national psychology.From the perspectives of multi-discipline, this dissertation researched the change of ways of life and psychological adjustment of nomads in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture based on pre-existing data and related theories, including ethnology, psychology, sociology and ecology.The dissertation consists of six parts. We will find the significance and the reason why we choose the topic and overview the results of academics at home and abroad in Part One:Introduction. Part Two including Chapter One, we will provide a general picture of natural geographical environment and human cultural environment. Part Three consists of three chapters, which are Chapter2, Chapter3and Chapter4; we mainly discuss traditional ways of life and national culture, and changes of life due to changes of traditional ways of life. Chapter5comprise of Part Four, we will analyze changes of ways of life and psychological situation resulting from changes of ways of life. Chapter6, also Part Five, we will find out psychological adjustment of nomads from the perspectives of society, culture, space and right, put forward psychological adjustment which accommodate the changes of national culture of nomad and protect the nomads. Part Six summarizes the results of the dissertation and offers some suggestions for the future of nomads.