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 laity and until some sign of imperfection appears, most commonly with the onset of menstruation, thmore
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University Press; Katmandu. Good+ N.D.. Softcover. Light stain at top corner and across top page edges with some warping on the rear cover. Several turned corners. ; Light yellow and white medium size softcover with red and blue titles and decorations. Assembled and printed in Nepal, around 1982, usmore
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This is a collection of and about the actors of World of Work in Nepal, about the struggles for the dignity of working class peoples.
The publication tells the readers stories and issues of confrontations with odds and challenges and assimilations to ground realities in order to make the labour more
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Editorial:
Mary Des Chene and Pratyoush Onta - Writing and Reading about Nepal. Page 1-4
Articles:
Mark Liechty - Selective Exclusion: Foreigners, Foreign Goods and Foreignness in Modern Nepali History. Page 5-68
Pratyoush Onta - Activities in a "Fossil State": Balkrishna Sama and the Making omore
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Articles
Sherry B. Ortner
The Making and Self-Making of "The Sherpas" in Early Himalayan Mountaineering
Page 1-34
Jagannath Adhikari and Hans-Georg Bohle
Rural Livelihoods at Risk: Determinants of the Abilities of Nepali Hill Farmers to Cope with Food Deficiency
Page 35-86
Mark Liechty more
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Editorial
Mary Des Chene and Pratyoush Onta
Reflections on SINHAS, Past and Future
Page 1-3
Articles
David Holmberg and Kathryn March with Suryaman Tamang
Local Production/Local Knowledge: Forced Labour From Below
Page 5-64
Pratyoush Onta
Career of Bhanubhakta as a History of Nepali more
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Articles
Bernardo A. Michael
Statemaking and Space on the Margins of Empire: Rethinking the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816
Page 247-294
Manjushree Thapa
With Love and Aesthetics: Notes for an Ethical Translation of Nepali Literature
Page 295-326
Judith Pettigrew and Yarjung Tamu
The Komore
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