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Contribution to the Ethnobotany of the Tamangs of Kathmandu Valley
The article documents ethnobotanical information of the Tamangs of Kathmandu valley area with special reference to the wild plants useful in meeting their various daily needs. The surveys were carried...
Review of Sidney Ruth Schuler, The Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas; Nancy E. Levine, The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity and population on the Tibetan Border
Nancy E. Levine, The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border.
Webs of Dependence in Rural Nepal: Debt, Poverty and Depopulation in the Far Northwest
The article surveys webs of dependence in rural Nepal and discusses debt, poverty, and depopulation in the far northwest. The article states that serious indebtedness among Nepal's rural peasantry has...
Cultural Knowledge of Hygiene and Sanitation as a Basis for Health Development in Nepal
The article reports on an investigation into the contexts in which folk knowledge of hygiene and sanitation in Nepal might play some role in the promotion of public health. It particularly focuses on ...
The Sherpas Transformed: Towards a Power-centred View of Change in the Khumbu
The article presents the case for a more optimistic, power-centered view of change in the Khumbu, Nepal, based on the author's fieldwork in the village of Thame. The author also offer a critical revie...
In Search of the Household: Some Observations from the Western Hills of Nepal
This article examines the variety of household groupings found in a comparatively small area of the Nepalese hills, 2000 square kilometers, covered by Lumle agricultural centre's extension command are...
Dumakhal: A Brief Report on the Excavations
The article is a brief statement of some of the chief findings made during the course of excavations in Dumakhal, a small village northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal. Dumakhal is a small Brahman village tha...
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