Editorial: Mary Des Chene
In the Name of Bikas Page 259-270
Articles:
Tatsuro Fujikura - Technologies of Improvement, Locations of Culture: American Discourses of Democracy and 'Community Develo ... .. read
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Articles :
Martin Gaenszle with Nutan D. Sharma - Nepali kings and Kasi: On the changing significance of a sacred centre. Page 1-33
Rhoderick Chalmers - Pandits and pulp fiction: popular publishi ... .. read
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Kathmandu, Newar Buddhist girls as young as two years old are selected to become living incarnations of the Hindu goddess Taleju. Called 'Kumaris', the children are worshiped daily by both priests and ... .. read
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The book is a bold exploration of certain controversial issues that relate to the everyday life of Hindu women. As Michael Allen says, it is "a collection of quite brilliant essays that I feel certain ... .. read
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Mesocosm offers an entirely new understanding of the role of a traditional Hindu city In the lives, of Its. Inhabitants. Formerly the capital of Nepal, the city of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley wa ... .. read
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The dictionary covers the colloquial, spoken language. It is certainly
not complete, but it is comparable in scope to existing bilingual Limbu-
English dictionaries apart from the completed but stil ... .. read
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The Sherpas: a Nepalese people surrounded by myth and mystery, at home in north-east Nepal's Khumbu valley and Everest foothills. They have captured the attention of anthropologists of the world over ... .. read
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Kamaiya: Slavery and Freedom challenges the usual postcard image of ethnic groups in Nepal and the ease with which issues involving the lives of thousands of underprivileged people so easily slip off ... .. read
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This book is written primarily for scholars of Nepal, other scholars such as anthropologists (especially medical anthropologists), social epidemiologists and public health professionals (especially he ... .. read
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