Books on Nepal

Sherpa Himalaya Nepal by Mario Fantin

TOURISM MONOGRAPH OF NEPAL AUTHOR - Yajna Raj Satyal

This comprehensive study explores the ways in which the social and symbolic roles of high-caste Brahman-Chetri Nepali women combine to define their position in patrilineal Hindu society. A multilevel interpretation of the Hindu perception of women, the work examines the social, mythic, and ritual structures of the society with reference to a particular Hindu community and then details the ways in which individual women live within the ambivalences of their status and make their choices. The unit of study is…

Here for the first time is a thorough anthropological study of Tibetan lamaism in dialogue with the Nepalese shaman tradition. It combines textual analysis with richly contextualised ethnographic data. Rites studied include exchanges with the underworld, demon exorcism, recalling the soul, and the famed guiding of the consciousness in the Tibetan death rite. "Anthropology in the grand style" - American Anthropologist "The analysis of this confrontation is compelling" - American Ethnologist "An account of myths and rituals practised in a…

The Rulings of the Night offers something new to the anthropology of language and ritual. Built on impeccably careful fieldwork, and beautiful at times in its transparency, the book gets back to the words themselves in crafting an understanding of the deadly important play between shamanic prayers and social reality in the Nepal Himalayas. The authors novel focus on the pragmatics of everday speech is sure to provoke argument and a much needed one, at

This book is study of the changing relations between members of the priestly caste (Brahmins) and a group of untouchables (Cobblers). The study covers a periods of several decades up to the time of fieldwork at the end of the 1960s in a Hindu village in western Nepal. From a position of almost total economic dependence on the priestly caste, the untouchables had become increasingly independent because of the new opportunities available in the expanding economy of the area. As…

The Tharu of lowland Nepal are a culturally and linguistically diverse people who, only a few generations ago, would not have acknowledged each other as belonging to the dame ethnic group. Today the Tharu are actively redefining themselves in Nepals multiethnic polity. In many Tongues, One People, Arjun Guneratne argues that shared cultural symbols-including religion, language, and common myths of descent-are not a necessary condition for the existence of a shared sense of peoplehood. The many diverse and distinct sociocultural…

Synopsis: This is an innovative collaborative study by six anthropologists (Gellner, Todd T Lewis, Hiroshi Ishii, Quigley, Gerard Toffin & Rajendra P Pradhan) of a famous complex society. Focusing on the core institutions of kinship & intercaste relations, the book adopts a variety of different viewpoints, thus avoiding the unconscious high-caste that has charaterized many other studies in South Asia.

The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism Author: David N. Gellner

High Frontiers Author: Kenneth Michael Bauer

A tender account?by turns cultural exploration and memoir of a young womans firsthand experience of change and continuity in one of the worlds most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and horse culture. At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture deep into Mustang, an ethnically Tibetan area of Nepal, in the rainshadow of the Himalayas. As an equestrian and a budding anthropologist, she sought not only to understand what it was like to rely on horses…

Himalayan Households: Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes Author: Thomas E Frick

Tantric Healing in the Kathmandu Valley Author: Angela Dietrich

Born almost a century ago in to the Gurung tribe, her given name was Vishu Maya Gurung, but her relatives and villagers call her Aama (mother). She speaks with a salty candor about her everyday world - farming her rice paddies and millet fields, vigorously climbing trees to gather fodder for her water buffalo, brewing herbs and trekking for weeks on pilgrimage to 12,000 feet in the Himalayas.

LANDOWNERSHIP IN NEPAL Author: Mahesh C. Regmi

A STUDY IN NEPALI ECONOMIC HISTORY AUTHOR - Mahesh C Regmi

IMPERIAL GORKHA: AN ACCOUNT OF GORKHALI RULE IN KUMAUN ( 1791-1815) AUTHOR - Mahesh C. Regmi

CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF NEPAL CHINA RELATIONS AUTHOR - V K Manandhar

THATCHED HUTS & STUCCO PALACES: Peasants and Landlords in 19th Century Nepal AUTHOR - Mahesh C. Regmi