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Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 377 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Glossy illustrated stiff paper wrappers with white and black lettering to cover and spine. Very slight curl to fore-edge of front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding firm with no creases or cracks. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9781859734872.

Zustand: New. pp. 261.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. pp. xvii + 543 Figures Maps.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. pp. 239 Illus. (Some Col.), Maps.

Zustand: New. pp. 390 Maps.

Zustand: New. Brand New. Soft Cover International Edition. Different ISBN and Cover Image. Priced lower than the standard editions which is usually intended to make them more affordable for students abroad. The core content of the book is generally the same as the standard edition. The country selling restrictions may be printed on the book but is no problem for the self-use. This Item maybe shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction the origins of modernist Buddhism. 2. Theravada missionaries in an autocratic state. 3. Creating a tradition. 4. Charisma and education Dhammawati and the nuns order after 1963. 5. The changing Buddhist laity. 6. Organizing and educating the monastic community. 7. Raising the status of nuns the controversy over Bhikkhuni ordination. 8. Winds of change meditation and social activism. 9. Other Buddhist revival movements Tibetan Mahayana and Newar Vajrayana. 10. Conclusion Nepal's Theravadins in the twenty first century. Appendix 1. Dramatis personae some prominent personalities in the Theravada movement. 2. Complete list of Theravada Viharas in Nepal. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. Rebuilding Buddhism describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhism was introduced into Nepal from Burma and Sri Lanka in the 1930s and its adherents have struggled for recognition and acceptance ever since. With its focus on the austere figure of the monk and the biography of the historical Buddha and more recently with its emphasis on individualizing meditation and on gender equality Theravada Buddhism contrasts sharply with the highly ritualized Tantric Buddhism traditionally practiced in the Kathmandu Valley. Based on extensive fieldwork interviews and historical reconstruction the book provides a rich portrait of the different ways of being a Nepali Buddhist over the past seventy years. At the same time it explores the impact of the Theravada movement and what its gradual success has meant for Buddhism for society and for men and women in Nepal. 378 pp.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780822355564.

Zustand: New. pp. 320.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Light shelf and handling wear. Pages tightly bound, content is 'as unread'. CN. Used.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 364 pages, with 19 plates and 12 figures, a Fine hardback in a near-fine dust-jacket - a book in the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series [0198279604].

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. pp.xv, 383 pages, 5 plates and maps and 13 tables, an As New hardback with illustrated boards so no dust-jacket called for [184545216X].

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one instance, along borders within India. Whether discussing Shii Muslims striving to be patriotic Indians in the Kashmiri district of Kargil or Bangladeshis living uneasily in an enclave surrounded by Indian territory, the contributors show that state borders in Northern South Asia are complex sites of contestation. Indias borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China and Nepal encompass radically different ways of life, a whole spectrum of relationships to the state, and many struggles with urgent identity issues. Taken together, the essays show how it is possible to comprehend Northern South Asia''s various nation-state projects without relapsing into conventional nationalist accounts. This book will be an essential reference for South and Southeast Asian specialists, for anthropologists, sociologists, and historians of the region, for anyone interested in border and boundary issues, and for those using and studying ethnographic approaches to the state.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Hardcover 2009, Volume 2 edition. Text and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Text free from markings and labels. (367 pages).

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Contributors. I. Local political and social change 1. Local politics and alternatives in development in North Bengal/Abhijit Dasgupta. 2. Beyond Culture and Agriculture Agrarian change and caste conflict in Rural Punjab/Surinder Singh Jodhka. 3. Social change and leadership a case study of Bhaktapur City/Krishna Hachhethu. 4. The transformation of caste relationships in Nepal rethinking Substantialization/Hiroshi Ishii. 5. Understanding the ethical basis of local democracy towards post postcolonial transformation in Rural Orissa/Akio Tanabe. II. Transformations of religious identities and practices 6. Hindus and Muslims after the 2002 Gujarat Riots Imaging as binary opposites/Lancy Lobo and Biswaroop Das. 7. The spread of Vihar Buddhism among Rural Newars in the Kathmandu Valley/Keshav Lall Maharajan. 8. Public space voluntary associations and Hindu Nationalism changing urban festivals in Udaipur Rajasthan/Minoru Mio. 9. Some unintended consequences of ritual change the case of funerals in Changru Byans Far Western Nepal/Katsuo Nawa. III. Forms of Secular Activism resistance negotiation and violence 10. Bengalis outside Bengal the 1947 Partition of India and the formation of a Bengali Displaced Persons Colony in South Delhi India/Tetsuya Nakatani. 11. The bonded agricultural labourers Freedom Movement in Western Nepal/Tatsuro Fujikura. 12. The sociology of Activism in Nepal some preliminary considerations/David N. Gellner and Mrigendra Bahadur Karki. 13. Challenging Goliath people dams and paradoxes of Transnational Critical Movements/Joanna Pfaff Czarnecka. 14. Maoists people and the state as seen from Rolpa and Rukum/Kiyoko Ogura. Afterword 15. A note on the Substantialization of caste and its Hegemony/Jonathan Parry. Abbreviations. Glossary. Personal name index. Subject index. Northern South Asia Including Northern India Nepal Pakistan Bhutan and Bangladesh encompasses huge ethnic cultural and socio political diversity and has experienced far reaching social change in recent times. This volume analyses the dynamics of social categories group identities and Social and Political Movements in the region. Part I examines political and social processes focusing on the different ways in which the rise of previously subordinate castes has changed the practical and normative bases of local life. In part 2 four contrasting chapters bring new perspectives insights and materials to bear on communal conflict and the rise of Hindu Nationalism in India and on religious and ritual change in Nepal. Part 3 deals with various forms of activism including Bengalis in Delhi movements of bonded agricultural labourers ethnic groups Anti Dam Movements and the social basis of Maoism in Nepal. Part 4 consists of an Afterword by Jonathan Parry analyzing the changing significance of caste in the region. This is second of the two volumes jointly entitled Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia. They bring together scholars from Japan Nepal India Europe and America in order to deepen our understanding of social change in the region on the basis of fresh fieldwork reports and new analyses. 520 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Contributors. Introduction Hiroshi Ishii David N. Gellner and Katsuo Nawa. I. Urbanization ethnicity and occupation 1. Urbanization and change in Pokhara Nepal/Jagannath Adhikari. 2. Occupational change among the Gaines of Pokhara City/Biswo Kallyan Parajuli. 3. Changing environments society and culture case studies of some Dalits and Kumals in Pokhara Valley/Ram B. Chhetri. 4. The Sukumbasi Transformation from communitas to community the birth and death of Proto Charisma among Squatters in Pokhara Nepal/Yuji Yamamoto. II. Marriage kinship and transformation of intimacy 5. Abduction elopement and incest in Khas Society/Hayami Yasuno. 6. I Don't Mind Being Born a Woman the status and agency of women in Yolmo Nepal/Seika Sato. 7. Parental wisdom vs. youthful romance getting married in two Nepalis Communities/Sarah LeVine. 8. Laments for unfortunate marriages domestic violence in the Nepali context/Makiko Habazaki. 9. Drug users of Dharan aspects of Marginalization/Khusiyali Subba. 10. Learning to be silent change childhood and mental health in the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal/Judith Pettigrew. III. Transnational links inside and outside Nepal 11. The development of local entrepreneurship a case study of a tourist area Thamel in Kathmandu/Izumi Morimoto. 12. Re examining transnational from below and transnationalism from above British Gurkhas life strategies and the Brigade of Gurkhas Employment Policies/Taeko Uesugi. 13. Bowling Together social networks and social capital of a Nepali Migrant Community in Japan/Keiko Yamanaka. 14. From Tika to Kata Ethnic Movements among the Magars in an age of globalization/Makito Minami. IV. Nepal as viewed from the Indian Himalayas 15. Issues activism and responses to research in the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas a comparison/Gerald D. Berreman. Abbreviations. Glossary. Personal name index. Subject index. Situated in Northern South Asia at the interface between different linguistic and cultural areas Nepal contains huge ethnic cultural and socio political diversity. At the same time it has had to confront far reaching social change in an extremely compressed timescale. This volume attempts to encompass these transformations and the resultant complexity through a series of in depth case studies. Part 1 focuses on Pokhara an important urban hub in West Nepal and deals with urbanization evolving ethnic relations and occupational shifts. Part 2 Marriage kinship and transformation of intimacy covers questions of gender social relations marriage drug use and coping with the Maoist Insurgency in various parts of the country. In part 3 Transnational Links different chapters cover Gurkha Soldiers tourist developments migrant workers and Ethnic Movements. Part 4 consists of one substantial chapter Nepal as viewed from the Indian Himalayas in which Gerald Berreman makes a series of direct comparisons between the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas. This is first of the two volumes entitled Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia. The volumes bring together scholars from Japan Nepal India Europe and America in order to deepen our understanding of social change in the region on the basis of fresh fieldwork reports and new analyses. 544 pp.