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Review Of 'Islam And Tibet: Interactions Along The Musk Routes' Edited By Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett And Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Jacqueline Fewkes
Review Of 'Islam And Tibet: Interactions Along The Musk Routes' Edited By Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett And Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Jacqueline Fewkes
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Obituary: Philippe Sagant (1936-2015), Stéphane Gros, Grégoire Schlemmer
Obituary: Philippe Sagant (1936-2015), Stéphane Gros, Grégoire Schlemmer
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
17th International Association For Ladakh Studies (Ials) Conference Report
17th International Association For Ladakh Studies (Ials) Conference Report
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Kathmandu Social Science Baha Conference
Kathmandu Social Science Baha Conference
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Kathmandu— Autumn 2015, Sienna Craig
Kathmandu— Autumn 2015, Sienna Craig
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Where The Yak Became One With The Soil: Reflections On Life And Research In A Himalayan Village, Geoff Childs, Alyssa A. Kaelin
Where The Yak Became One With The Soil: Reflections On Life And Research In A Himalayan Village, Geoff Childs, Alyssa A. Kaelin
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This article explores the role that Briddim, a small village in northern Rasuwa District, Nepal, played in the intellectual development of two students who visited nearly three decades apart. After a brief historical survey focusing on the village’s position on a trans-Himalayan trade route connecting Kathmandu with Kyirong, the authors use a personal and reflective lens to explore Briddim’s changing fortunes in relation to international exchange networks and geopolitical forces. In many ways Briddim encapsulates the socioeconomic and cultural changes sweeping contemporary highland Nepal as a result of rising educational opportunities, tourism, and migration. By comparing notes from 1984 and …
Afterword | Charting Himalayan Histories, Sara Shneiderman
Afterword | Charting Himalayan Histories, Sara Shneiderman
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Producing Himalayan Darjeeling: Mobile People And Mountain Encounters, Jayeeta Sharma
Producing Himalayan Darjeeling: Mobile People And Mountain Encounters, Jayeeta Sharma
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This article explores the social production of Darjeeling through the social and cultural encounters that helped transform a mountain health resort for colonial functionaries into a vibrant Himalayan hub for vernacular modernity and local cosmopolitanism. While Darjeeling’s high-altitude setting inextricably linked it to the intense exploitation of subaltern bodies, it evolved as a dynamic urban locality that offered mobile individuals and groups the opportunity to seek out new livelihoods and realize modernistic aspirations in a transcultural setting.
Reconsidering State-Society Relations In South Asia: A Himalayan Case Study, Sanjog Rupakheti
Reconsidering State-Society Relations In South Asia: A Himalayan Case Study, Sanjog Rupakheti
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Since the mid-eighteenth century when armies serving the English East India Company (EIC) clashed with the Gorkhali power, British officers depicted Nepal as an example of classical Hindu despotism. Subsequent scholars of the region have not challenged these representations, taking such colonial descriptors as ‘facts.’ The portrayal of the centralized and ‘despotic’ state in South Asian pasts rests upon a certain understanding of the state’s relationship with society. It calls for imagining the Gorkhali regime as alien to the rest of society and supposing that ethnicity and caste are inflexible from one century to the next. The excessive attention given …
Addressing The Youth: Emerging Youth Publics In Late Colonial Uttarakhand, Leah M. Koskimaki
Addressing The Youth: Emerging Youth Publics In Late Colonial Uttarakhand, Leah M. Koskimaki
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This essay discusses the formation of political youth publics in the late colonial period in Kumaun and Garhwal in the northwestern Himalayan region of India. More specifically, it highlights forms of address to youth and students in the Hindi press in the period of nationalist mobilization. In published speeches and editorials, educated youth were a target audience for newly fashioned political roles; they were asked to spread regional awareness over rights, to travel to the countryside, to make sacrifices, to make use of time, and to demonstrate their duty towards national causes. Overall, the paper argues that the notion of …
Introduction | Charting Himalayan Histories, Arik Moran, Catherine Warner
Introduction | Charting Himalayan Histories, Arik Moran, Catherine Warner
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin
Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Review Of 'Maoists At The Hearth: Everyday Life In Nepal’S Civil War' By Judith Pettigrew, Matthew W. Maycock
Review Of 'Maoists At The Hearth: Everyday Life In Nepal’S Civil War' By Judith Pettigrew, Matthew W. Maycock
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Review Of 'Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’S Water Crisis' By Cheryl Colopy, Sagar Rijal
Review Of 'Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia’S Water Crisis' By Cheryl Colopy, Sagar Rijal
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Review Of 'Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation And The Gift Of Chinese Development' By Emily T. Yeh, Kabir Mansingh Heimsath
Review Of 'Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation And The Gift Of Chinese Development' By Emily T. Yeh, Kabir Mansingh Heimsath
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of 'Development And Public Health In The Himalaya: Reflections On Healing In Contemporary Nepal' By Ian Harper, Steve Folmar
Review Of 'Development And Public Health In The Himalaya: Reflections On Healing In Contemporary Nepal' By Ian Harper, Steve Folmar
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of 'Getting Married: Hindu And Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among The Newars Of Bhaktapur And Patan, Nepal' By Niels Gutschow And Axel Michaels, Michael Baltutis
Review Of 'Getting Married: Hindu And Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among The Newars Of Bhaktapur And Patan, Nepal' By Niels Gutschow And Axel Michaels, Michael Baltutis
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Annual Conference On South Asia, Madison, Wi, 17-19 October 2014, Galen Murton
Annual Conference On South Asia, Madison, Wi, 17-19 October 2014, Galen Murton
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
To Use Or Not To Use: Nepal Samvat, The National Era Of Nepal, Bal G. Shrestha
To Use Or Not To Use: Nepal Samvat, The National Era Of Nepal, Bal G. Shrestha
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This paper presents the importance of Nepal Samvat in Nepalese cultural life and compares it with Vikram Samvat, the official calendar of Nepal. Presenting a discussion on eras prevalent in Nepal, this paper examines the significance of the Nepal Government’s recent recognition of Nepal Samvat as the national calendar of Nepal. It presents a historical and cultural overview of the different eras and calendars that are in use in Nepal. It attempts to demonstrate a continuous historical legitimacy of Nepal Samvat, in contrast with Vikram Samvat, which is shown to be a fairly recent imposition associated with the Rana period, …
Challenging Global Advocacy Of Biomedical Institution-Based Birth In Nepal: A Review With Reference To Nepal And South Asia, Thea Vidnes
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Based on findings from public health, demographic, and anthropological research, this review discusses biomedical institution-based birth in Nepal, in the process asserting that better understanding of maternal health determinants requires biomedical strategies be balanced with greater attention to local social realities and approaches. The paper begins with a summary of evolving international maternal health policies and their manifestations in Nepal, then discusses how recent public health research there indicates existing community support structures, including women’s groups, to have had demonstrably positive impacts on maternal health. The subject of women’s reproductive agency is subsequently considered. While public health and development-based research …
Agrarian Future(S) Of Rural Nepal: Revitalizing Peasant Agriculture?, Ramesh K. Sunam, Keshab R. Goutam
Agrarian Future(S) Of Rural Nepal: Revitalizing Peasant Agriculture?, Ramesh K. Sunam, Keshab R. Goutam
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Discourses on peasant agriculture have heightened in the context of recurrent food crisis and persistent poverty in Nepal as in many parts of the global South. Although an industrialized model of agriculture has been promoted as a pathway to a food-secure future, it has been heavily criticized for being environmentally destructive and socially unbearable. In this broader context, we examine peasant farming to explore enabling factors and barriers for its revitalization in Nepal, where the vast majority of rural people depends on farming for their livelihoods. This research draws on case studies of two agrarian villages characterized mainly by the …
"As Our Ancestors Once Lived": Representation, Performance, And Constructing A National Culture Amongst The Nagas Of India., Arkotong Longkumer
"As Our Ancestors Once Lived": Representation, Performance, And Constructing A National Culture Amongst The Nagas Of India., Arkotong Longkumer
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This paper focuses on how a national culture emerges by examining the Nagas of India. To appreciate this process, the confluence of British colonialism, the postcolonial situation, and contemporary performance of Naga identity (visible in the Hornbill Festival) must be analyzed. I will argue that the colonial era representation of ‘primitivism’ of the Nagas continues into postcolonial narratives of ‘imperialist nostalgia’ disseminated primarily through travel, popular media and museum exhibitions. I will argue that the Nagas are not simply passive onlookers, but active participants in this enterprise through the strategic articulation of a distinct Naga national image. I will demonstrate …
Which Medicine? Medicine-Taking And Changing Sherpa Lives, Susan Heydon
Which Medicine? Medicine-Taking And Changing Sherpa Lives, Susan Heydon
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
An increasing quantity of medicines, including medicines of different healing systems, have become available since the nineteen fifties to the mainly Sherpa inhabitants of the Mt. Everest region of Nepal. Considerable change and economic development has occurred in which this mountainous and remote area has become one of Nepal’s principal tourist destinations and people have gained access to education, health services, and modern means of communication. Many Sherpa travel regularly in Nepal and overseas, especially for work, education, or pilgrimage, or have migrated permanently. Focusing on oral histories, this article explores factors that have influenced people’s use of different medicines …
Constructing The New Nepal: Religious Billboards In Nepal’S Second People’S Movement, Michael Baltutis
Constructing The New Nepal: Religious Billboards In Nepal’S Second People’S Movement, Michael Baltutis
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Accompanying King Gyanendra’s February First, 2005, efforts to consolidate his loosening grip on national power, the royal Nepali government raised a series of highly visible billboards throughout the cities of the Kathmandu Valley. A small subset of these boards were explicitly religious, encouraging Nepal’s citizens to perform their patriotic bhakti (devotion), karma (action), and dharma (duty). This rhetorical support of a ‘universal’ Hinduism contradicted the inclusivism that was widely regarded as part and parcel of the ‘new Nepal’ and resulted in a contradictory vision of the same: a modern secular nation composed of citizens, rather than of subservient subjects, unified …
"Everyone Is Leaving. Who Will Sow Our Fields?” The Livelihood Effects On Women Of Male Migration From Khotang And Udaypur Districts, Nepal, To The Gulf Countries And Malaysia., Jagannath Adhikari, Mary Hobley
"Everyone Is Leaving. Who Will Sow Our Fields?” The Livelihood Effects On Women Of Male Migration From Khotang And Udaypur Districts, Nepal, To The Gulf Countries And Malaysia., Jagannath Adhikari, Mary Hobley
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Over the last ten years, the massive outmigration for foreign employment, mostly to the Gulf and Malaysia, has changed the livelihoods and social structure of rural Nepal. The remittance inflows into rural districts dwarf other flows of finance, and the absence of men from the agricultural and other labor forces has severe effects on agricultural production and gender relations. A study undertaken in the Khotang and Udaypur districts in the hills of Nepal indicates a complex series of social, economic, and ecological effects of migration at household and community level. This paper presents these findings, focusing on the gendered and …
Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin
Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
The Border Worlds Of Wim Van Spengen: Preface To Wim Van Spengen's “Beyond Annapurna, Or How To Interpret Success In Himalayan Trade”, Tina Harris
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This article is the preface to Wim Van Spengen's “Beyond Annapurna, or How to Interpret Success in Himalayan Trade.” It appears in the online version only of Himalaya, volume 33.
The History And Development Of De-Swiddening Among The Ersu In Sichuan, China, Edwin A. Schmitt
The History And Development Of De-Swiddening Among The Ersu In Sichuan, China, Edwin A. Schmitt
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The process of coercing or forcing farmers to transition from shifting agriculture to more sedentary agricultural practices, a process I refer to as “de-swiddening”, has been well documented for many decades. Most often this process takes place in the political context of a state’s attempt to make an agricultural system more “legible”, as Scott (1998) has aptly described it. In a more recent context, de-swiddening has actually been taken under the banner of environmental protection. In both instances, institutional bodies which design de-swiddening policies rarely consider its unintended consequences. In China, to prevent erosion in upland regions of the country, …
The Bittersweet Taste Of Rice. Sloping Land Conversion And The Shifting Livelihoods Of The Drung In Northwest Yunnan (China), Stéphane Gros
The Bittersweet Taste Of Rice. Sloping Land Conversion And The Shifting Livelihoods Of The Drung In Northwest Yunnan (China), Stéphane Gros
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Economic development and environmental protection have often proved to be conflicting driving forces behind change in northwest Yunnan province, China. In 2003, the Sloping Land Conversion Program brought an end to traditional shifting cultivation in the Dulong valley—part of the Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve, Gongshan County— and is now threatening Drung people’s livelihood and culture while further increasing villagers’ dependence on state subsidies. This paper addresses the implementation of this program and the difficulties encountered by locals in relation to environmental protection and economic development issues. It describes the specificities of swidden cultivation and explores aspects of human-environment relatedness in …
Precarity And Possibility: On Being Young And Indigenous In Sikkim, India, Mabel D. Gergan
Precarity And Possibility: On Being Young And Indigenous In Sikkim, India, Mabel D. Gergan
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In the last decade the Indian Power Ministry began an aggressive campaign for hydropower development in its ten Himalayan states. Twenty-nine of these dams were commissioned for construction in the small Eastern Himalayan state of Sikkim. In June 2007 Dzongu a protected reserve of the indigenous Lepchas in North Sikkim became the center of controversy when reserve youth went on a hunger strike against seven dams planned within the reserve. Their protests garnered enough national and international attention to cancel four of the seven dams. However within the reserve there was very little support for the activists who were seen …