ABSTRACT
Lehpa have adjusted relations between their houses, as well as modifying internal arrangements. There are more buildings and new domestic houses tend to be smaller than in the past with less land and fewer animals. Villagers, however, frequently say that nothing has changed. Their houses carry the same names, occupy the same plots of land and co-operate with neighbours as they always have. This chapter explores the relations between houses through the naming and numbering practices that signify village membership. It focuses on Taskhan and its neighbours shows that the new was accommodated retrospectively to the old in a way that reduced its novelty. Shifting patterns of marriage, residence and inheritance have been widely reported, including publications on six families in Leh from the 1930s to the 2000s. Neighbours were all accustomed to values that led their house foundations or plots to grow the same story every generation.
