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Prestigious Houses Or Provisional Homes? The Ghar As A Symbol Of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism, Andrew Nelson
Prestigious Houses Or Provisional Homes? The Ghar As A Symbol Of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism, Andrew Nelson
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Compared to the uniform brick architecture and contiguous courtyard structure of houses in the urban core of Kathmandu Valley cities, the houses of the growing urban periphery appear fragmented, disorganized, and unplanned. While critics attribute this haphazard growth to a site-then-services (house first, then infrastructure) approach of rural migrants, in this paper I consider it a result of an alternative formulation of planning generated by three-plus decades of economic and governmental liberalization. The practices of new homeowners in the periphery must be understood within the greater context of peri-urbanism controlled by a complex negotiation of brokers, contractors, housing companies, and …
Of "Tourist" Places: The Cultural Politics Of Narrating Space In Thamel, Benjamin Linder
Of "Tourist" Places: The Cultural Politics Of Narrating Space In Thamel, Benjamin Linder
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Thamel—a bustling neighborhood of restaurants, shops, bars, dance clubs, street vendors, and hotels in Kathmandu, Nepal—is overwhelmingly portrayed as a ‘tourist place’ by Nepalis and foreigners alike. Despite this widespread reputation, many user-groups assign divergent and contradictory meanings to the space, and these cannot be so easily reduced to the machinations of foreign tourism. This article critically considers this common trope that relegates Thamel to a ‘foreign’ status within Kathmandu’s cultural landscape. After reviewing the history of Thamel, the article details the various modes of reiteration through which the ‘tourist place’ characterization finds continued articulation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted …
Mobility And Nostalgia In Contemporary Kathmandu, Mark Liechty
Mobility And Nostalgia In Contemporary Kathmandu, Mark Liechty
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Labor And Race In Nepal’S Indigenous Nationalities Discourse: Beyond ‘Tribal’ Vs ‘Peasant’ Categories, Shae A. Frydenlund
Labor And Race In Nepal’S Indigenous Nationalities Discourse: Beyond ‘Tribal’ Vs ‘Peasant’ Categories, Shae A. Frydenlund
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In Nepal, Khaling indigenous nationalities discourse draws our attention to the way ‘tribal’ and ‘peasant’ categories blur in articulations of indigeneity, rather than working as separate strategies for gaining political rights. Through their oral histories, territorial claims, and most importantly their stories about labor, activists within the Khaling indigenous nationalities movement advocate for government recognition and fuller citizenship in the Nepali state. While labor is often left out of definitions of indigeneity, Khaling activists make claims to being indigenous people with their own territory specifically because of their position in the mountain labor hierarchy. This paper examines the emergence of …
Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin
Editorial, Sienna Craig, Mark Turin
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of "The Demands Of Recognition: State Anthropology And Ethnopolitics In Darjeeling" By Townsend Middleton, Swatahsiddha Sarkar
Review Of "The Demands Of Recognition: State Anthropology And Ethnopolitics In Darjeeling" By Townsend Middleton, Swatahsiddha Sarkar
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of "Dāphā: Sacred Singing In A South Asian City: Music, Performance And Meaning In Bhaktapur, Nepal" By Richard Widdess, Subhash Ram Prajapati
Review Of "Dāphā: Sacred Singing In A South Asian City: Music, Performance And Meaning In Bhaktapur, Nepal" By Richard Widdess, Subhash Ram Prajapati
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of "Counterinsurgency, Democracy, And The Politics Of Identity In India: From Warfare To Welfare?" By Mona Bhan, Carole Mcgranahan
Review Of "Counterinsurgency, Democracy, And The Politics Of Identity In India: From Warfare To Welfare?" By Mona Bhan, Carole Mcgranahan
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Review Of "Kings Of The Forest: The Cultural Resilience Of Himalayan Hunter- Gatherers" By Jana Fortier, "Culture And The Environment In The Himalaya" Edited By Arjun Guneratne, "Nature, Culture, And Religion At The Crossroads Of Asia" Edited By Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Nayna Jhaveri
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Conference Reports, Divya Gupta, Galen Murton
Conference Reports, Divya Gupta, Galen Murton
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Pathways: A Concept, Field Site And Methodological Approach To Study Remoteness And Connectivity, Martin Saxer
Pathways: A Concept, Field Site And Methodological Approach To Study Remoteness And Connectivity, Martin Saxer
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads a 5-year research project under the title ‘Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World’, funded by the European Research Council. Martin also directed two feature length documentary films and runs the visual ethnography blog theotherimage.com.
Water Connection: Everyday Religion And Environments In Kathmandu Valley, Mukta S. Tamang
Water Connection: Everyday Religion And Environments In Kathmandu Valley, Mukta S. Tamang
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This case study aims to explore the relationship between ‘everyday religion’ and prospects for urban sustainability in the context of on-going changes -in Kathmandu. It argues that everyday religion plays a role in furnishing the incentive for urban residents to sustainably manage ‘culturalized nature’ in the city. In particular, I examine water, the practices surrounding its use, and how these practices connect various social realms. I suggest that water in Kathmandu valley plays an important role as a connector encompassing life and death, religion and environment, as well as politics and development.
Beyond Contradiction: Sacred-Profane Waters And The Dialectics Of Everyday Religion, Georgina Drew
Beyond Contradiction: Sacred-Profane Waters And The Dialectics Of Everyday Religion, Georgina Drew
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Studies of the relationship between religion and ecology are either highly enthusiastic about the ways that religious belief can motivate sound resource management or skeptical of the connection. Using an everyday religion approach, this text takes a middle ground to show that resources are variously interpreted in daily life and that religious orientations, while potentially supportive of environmentally sound action, are but one source of influence. Drawing from fieldwork, the discussion employs practice theory to look at how water resources in a Himalayan township are understood and the ways that notions of responsibility for sacred and profane waters are changing. …
Resource Use Decisions: A Framework For Studying Religion And Sustainable Environments, Mark Larrimore
Resource Use Decisions: A Framework For Studying Religion And Sustainable Environments, Mark Larrimore
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Analyses of everyday religion and sustainable environments in the Himalaya are not helped much by the blunt instruments of “world religions” approaches to religion and ecology. This article suggests that a better grounded understanding, especially helpful for policy-makers integrating case studies from widely varying regions, might be gained by bypassing debates about the nature of “religion” entirely. Inspired by discussions in the Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments project, this article proposes a research framework with the deliberately mundane name resource use decisions. Attending to the reasons given, in various settings and to various stakeholders, for decisions regarding the cultivation and …
Explorations Of A Transforming Himalaya: Everyday Religion, Sustainable Environments, And Urban Himalayan Studies, Georgina Drew, Ashok Gurung
Explorations Of A Transforming Himalaya: Everyday Religion, Sustainable Environments, And Urban Himalayan Studies, Georgina Drew, Ashok Gurung
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This text serves as an introduction to a special issue introducing the work of scholars associated with the Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments in the Himalaya project. Included in the discussion is a set of observations on the key themes that brought the research project together, and which orient the submissions in this issue.
Gender Bias And Organ Transplantation In Nepal, Sarah Rasmussen, Pragya Paneru, Kalpana Shrestha, Pukar C. Shrestha
Gender Bias And Organ Transplantation In Nepal, Sarah Rasmussen, Pragya Paneru, Kalpana Shrestha, Pukar C. Shrestha
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Women in Nepal are less likely to receive proper, high quality medical care than their male relatives. Live-donor kidney transplantation provides a compelling example of such disparities, as 84% of recipients are male, 75% of donors are female and most kidneys are transferred from mother to son and from wife to husband. In the case of transplantation, women are not just denied healthcare, they are also responsible for the health of their male kin. Based on semi-structured ethnographic interviews with transplant patients, organ donors, dialysis patients and relatives, this paper elaborates on the social and economic factors that have created …
From Ruler To Healer: Changes In Religious Experience In The Western Himalayas, Asaf Sharabi, Hagar Shalev
From Ruler To Healer: Changes In Religious Experience In The Western Himalayas, Asaf Sharabi, Hagar Shalev
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Research literature on the Western Himalayas emphasizes the theistic control of local deities. In the framework of this ruling system, described by the concepts of 'Little Kingdom' and 'government by deity', local deities functioned as gods and kings. They practice their royalty through a concrete divinity notion, aided by human mediums. In this article we will indicate the beginning of a conceptual change in the perception of a local deity named Mahāsū. Although Mahāsū is still perceived as a ruler, his role has become largely symbolic. We maintain that this illustrates how local theistic conceptions adapt to changes in the …
New Languages Of Schooling: Ethnicity, Education And Equality In Nepal, Uma Pradhan
New Languages Of Schooling: Ethnicity, Education And Equality In Nepal, Uma Pradhan
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Mother-tongue education has remained a controversial issue in Nepal. Scholars, activists and policy-makers have, on the one hand, favored mother-tongue education from the standpoint of social justice. Against these views, others have identified this as predominantly groupist in its orientation and not helpful in an imagination of a unified national community. Taking this contention as a point of inquiry, this paper aims to explore the contested space of mother-tongue education to understand the ways in which people position themselves within the polarizing debates of ethnicity-based claims on education in Nepal. Drawing from the ethnographic fieldwork in mother-tongue education school, in …
Gallery Sketchbook, Priyankar Chand
Gallery Sketchbook, Priyankar Chand
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of 'The Bullet And The Ballot Box: The Story Of Nepal's Maoist Revolution' By Aditya Adhikari, Matjaz Pinter
Review Of 'The Bullet And The Ballot Box: The Story Of Nepal's Maoist Revolution' By Aditya Adhikari, Matjaz Pinter
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of ' Being Human In A Buddhist World: An Intellectual History Of Medicine In Early Modern Tibet' By Janet Gyatso, Barbara Gerke
Review Of ' Being Human In A Buddhist World: An Intellectual History Of Medicine In Early Modern Tibet' By Janet Gyatso, Barbara Gerke
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Himalayan Studies Conference Iv, University Of Texas-Austin, 26-28 February 2016, Beth Prosnitz
Himalayan Studies Conference Iv, University Of Texas-Austin, 26-28 February 2016, Beth Prosnitz
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Nepal Earthquake Summit, Dartmouth College, Hanover, Nh, 18-20 February 2016, Kenneth M. Bauer
Nepal Earthquake Summit, Dartmouth College, Hanover, Nh, 18-20 February 2016, Kenneth M. Bauer
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Unfolding Central Himalaya: The Cradle Of Culture, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India, 11-14 December 2015, Charles W. Norris-Brown, Himani Upadhyaya
Unfolding Central Himalaya: The Cradle Of Culture, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India, 11-14 December 2015, Charles W. Norris-Brown, Himani Upadhyaya
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Annual Conference On South Asia, Madison, Wi, 22-25 October 2015, Michelle U. Grocke
Annual Conference On South Asia, Madison, Wi, 22-25 October 2015, Michelle U. Grocke
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
The ‘Age Of Faith’ And The ‘Age Of Knowledge’: Secularism And Modern Tibetan Accounts Of Yogic Power, Annabella C. Pitkin
The ‘Age Of Faith’ And The ‘Age Of Knowledge’: Secularism And Modern Tibetan Accounts Of Yogic Power, Annabella C. Pitkin
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This paper approaches the dynamics of secularization and post-secularism among Tibetan Buddhists through the lens of ‘miracle’ narratives, both oral and textual, arguing that such narratives function as a lightening-rod for complexities surrounding secularism and its religious doubles. Tibetan Buddhist genres of historical and biographical writing brim with accounts of extraordinary yogic abilities (Skt. siddhi, Tib. dngos grub and Skt. ṛddhi, Tib. rdzu ‘phrul)), ranging from clairvoyance to flight. Combining interviews with Tibetan Buddhist scholars and practitioners, oral commentaries, and textual analysis, I engage here with analyses of yogic power articulated by three contemporary, primarily diaspora-based Tibetan Buddhist scholar-practitioners. I …
The 'Look Of Tibet' Without Religion: A Case Study In Contemporary Tibetan Art In Lhasa, Leigh Miller
The 'Look Of Tibet' Without Religion: A Case Study In Contemporary Tibetan Art In Lhasa, Leigh Miller
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The artworks and career phases of the Lhasa contemporary artist Gadé illustrate the complex entanglement of religion and the secular in modern Lhasa, while illuminating broader trends in contemporary Tibetan art as a cultural formation of local mediation of modernity’s strong influences. While the past is vital to Gadé, he is driven to “locate traditional Tibetan art in a contemporary context” where it can also be “detached from religion,” raising questions about representations of Tibet and the cultural future. He takes a secular approach to the role of artists in society that, along with his cohorts in the emergent contemporary …
Introduction | Theorizing The Secular In Tibetan Cultural Worlds, Holly Gayley, Nicole Willock
Introduction | Theorizing The Secular In Tibetan Cultural Worlds, Holly Gayley, Nicole Willock
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This special issue on ‘The Secular in Tibetan Cultural Worlds’ originated in a panel on The Secular in Tibet and Mongolia at the Thirteenth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2013. To contextualize the contributions to this issue, spanning diverse temporal and geographic contexts, this Introduction raises theoretical concerns and discusses contested terminology regarding ‘religion’ and the ‘secular’ in Tibetan discourse. The authors situate local articulations of the secular within broader academic discussions of the varieties of Asian secularisms and offer a key intervention to complicate the secularization thesis and prevailing views of …
Review Of 'Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy And Mediation In Kathmandu' By Laura Kunreuther, Mary Cameron
Review Of 'Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy And Mediation In Kathmandu' By Laura Kunreuther, Mary Cameron
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of 'Land Of Pure Vision: The Sacred Geography Of Tibet And The Himalaya' By David Zurick, Lindsay Skog
Review Of 'Land Of Pure Vision: The Sacred Geography Of Tibet And The Himalaya' By David Zurick, Lindsay Skog
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.