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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface. Foreword. Introduction. 1. Decision-making under contradictory certainties. I. Welcome to uncertainty: 2. Which way the spiral? 3. Getting to grips with uncertainty. 4. How have we got to grips with uncertainty? II. Knowing where to hit it: 5. The systems approach. 6. A conceptual framework. 7. Some strategic implications. 8. Specific recommendations. III. Rare animals, poor people and big agencies: 9. A one-sided conversation. 10. From monologue to dialogue. References. Index. "The Himalaya, all the experts agree, face serious environmental problems; they are caught in a downward spiral. The rate of fuelwood consumption, for instance, is asserted to be far in excess of the rate at which the forest grows. However, the expert estimates of these two rates vary by such immense factors that we simply cannot say whether the spiral, if it exists, is upward or downward. There is something severely wrong with the Himalaya but we cannot tell what it is. The traditional response - a call for more research - has not worked and the perceived urgency of the situation calls for action now, before it is too late. The challenge is to furnish a non-arbitrary strategic framework for the action. Putting such a framework together calls for a new synthesis of hard and soft science. When, try as you may, you cannot find out what the facts in the Himalaya really are you can still do something. You can find out why it is that you can't find out what they are. The authors begin by showing how it is the institutions and their contradictory problem definitions - the international agencies insisting that there are too many people; the people themselves insisting that there is not enough food - that continually muddle the hard scientists' efforts to pinpoint what is really going on and why. In an important sense, they argue, the institutions are the facts. They then go on to show how a combination of hard and soft approaches - obtainable physical facts correlated with obtainable institutional facts - can provide a framework for action--immediate action. This, because it anticipates the grassroots obstacles that all too often get in the way of conventionally designed development programmes, actually improves on the sorts of hard-fact dominated frameworks that are unobtainable in the Himalaya anyway. The uncertainty is itself the key. That is the surprising, and hopeful, message of this book, which remains as relevant even twenty years after it first appeared.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Water in Nepal is an account of Nepali society's development efforts over the last two decades seen through the lens of water. Water has normally been understood to be Nepa's biggest and most understood to be Nepal's biggest and most under-exploited resoruce, but Dipak Gyawali questions such beliefs by going beyond the usual practice of government and aid agencies to see water resources development as primarily a construction enterprise. Tehse writings reflect Gyawali's evolution from engineer to economist to cultural theorist and present this national resource as a focal point where history, politics and even religion intersect with engineering and economics. The conventional wisdom that centralised, state-owned utilities are the best isntruments to develop Nepal's water has today been discarded in favour of privatisation. Gyawali uses a cultural Theory framework to argue for a move away from such simplistic pendulum swings to a more pluralised social terrrain where not just the voice of the bureaucracy or the market but also that of a critical civil society is heard. Using the debates of the 1990s, particularly Arun-3 and the Mahakali treaty, the book describes the problems that arise in a poor country without the wherewithal to develop its natural endowment when development ambitions outpace its innate capacity. (jacket).…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Education. 3. Health. 4. Economic Status. 5. Human Development Indexes. 6. Summary of the Findings. The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male Bahuns of hill origin. This is obviously not very useful for targeted economic and social interventions, and this book attempts to provide statistical evidence on what population groups are de facto excluded along a number of economic and social dimensions.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. The setting: 1. Nepali culture and society: an historical overview. II. Ancient and mediaeval Nepal: 2. The land system of the Licchavis in Nepal. 3. The Licchavi and mediaeval period land systems: a sketch. 4. A fresh look at the origin and forms of early temples in the Kathmandu Valley. 5. The divinities of the Karnali Basin. III. State and society: 6. Caste, social mobility and Sanskritisation: a study of Nepal's old legal code. 7. Introduction to The caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal. 8. Caste societies in the state of Nepal: a historical perspective. 9. Nepal: Hindu-tribal interface. IV. Emerging trends in ethnicity: 10. Ethnicity and national integration in Nepal: a statement of the problem. 11. How to tend this garden. 12. Bahuns in the Nepali state. 13. Nation-building, multi-ethnicity, and the Hindu state. 14. The Matawali Chetris of Western Nepal. V. Contemporary sociology of Nepali life: 15. Old age in Nepal: some preliminary observations. 16. Secular India and Hindu Nepal: convergences and divergences. 17. Values in the doldrums: does the west meet the east in Nepal. 18. Emergence of a hill-town: urban development in Nepal's rural backhills. Bibliography. Index. From the foreword: "In the papers collected here the reader will find the collected wisdom of Nepal's finest historical anthropologist or anthropological historian of his generation. Most Nepali historians use the facts of the present to illuminate the past, but few do so with the sophistication and sensitivity of Prayag Raj Sharma. He argues for long-term continuities of culture and structure, but he is aware of the methodological pitfalls in doing so. Of the three crucibles he identifies which have made modern Nepali culture what it is today--the far west, the Kathmandu Valley, and the Tarai--Prayag Raj Sharma has carried out first-hand research in the first two areas and he has offered new intellectual syntheses and overviews relevant to all three. . . His lucid prose, his classical sociological approach, his engaged but balanced concern, and his deep appreciation of all aspects of Nepal's society and history mean that his corpus will stand for a long time to come as an essential witness to the struggles of post-1950 Nepal to come to terms with its Hindu Past.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Proposed federal models. 3. Data. 4. Poverty. 5. Landholdings and demography. 6. Landlessness. 7. Wages for casual farm laborers. 8. Education. 9. Remittances. 10. Conclusion. References. Appendices. Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential but disputed issue. The book discusses underlying economic and social conditions that should be taken into account when the provinces are formed. It is described how the average province poverty levels and related economic and social indicators will depend on the federal map. The general finding is straight forward if there is variation in poverty between districts in a specific area, then a large province that includes both poor and rich districts will have the average poverty level of those districts. As a result models with a large number of provinces will tend to imply a more unequal distribution of poverty between provinces than models with few provinces. In particular one may end up with a very poor Karnali province if the western hills becomes one separate province. …

Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 225 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); Einbandkanten sind bestoßen; der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. ENGLISCH. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface. Introductory chapter: 50 years of foreign aid. 1. Introduction. 2. Nepal: the environment. I. 1951- 4: 3. The political and economic scene, 1951 - 4. 4. Early United States assistance. 5. Indian and minor aid programmes. II. 1955 - 8: 6. The political and economic scene, 1955 - 8. 7. United States assistance. 8. India, Swiss, Chinese and Soviet aid. III. 1959 - 62: 9. The political and economic scene, 1959 - 62. 10. United States assistance and the Government of Nepal. 11. Indian and Chinese aid: a conflict in purpose. 12. Minor aid programmes. 13. Conclusion: the utility of aid. Appendices: 1. Chronology. 2. Commitment and expenditures by significant donors. 3. Exchange rates. 4. Treaties and agreements. Bibliography. Index.First published in 1965, this study of foreign aid has now become a recognised classic on the subject. When the author did his research in the early 1960s, Nepal had already begun receiving assistance from an extraordinarily large number of countries and agencies. Donor interest in those initial years was driven mainly by the fact that the country occupied a strategic position as a frontline state against communist China. But, as the author discovered, there were good reasons to doubt the widely accepted assumption that all underdeveloped countries were being swept by a 'revolution of rising expectations'. He also reached the startling conclusion that, on balance, the impact of foreign aid has probably harmed, rather than furthered, Nepal's long-range prospects for economic growth and political stability. The evolution of Nepali society and economy over the last three decades of the 20 century seems to have supported Mihaly's thesis. 238 pp.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Contents: Publisher's note. Reminiscences by way of a new preface. Preface. Introduction. 1. Geopolitics of the Tarai. 2. Economy of the Tarai. 3. Nepal-India border problems. 4. Migration into the Tarai. 5. The politics of citizenship. 6. The politics of language. 7. Language, communication, and national integration. 8. Politics in the Nepalese tradition. 9. Oppositional politics in the Tarai. 10. The problem of national integration. Appendix. Glossary. Selected bibliography. Index. "Regionalism and National Unity in Nepal is Frederick H. Gaige's acclaimed study of the Tarai and the Nepali state's misdirected and ineffectual attempts at integrating the region into the national mainstream. The theme of the book remains as relevant three decades later, especially at a time when the very essence of Nepali nationalism is being questioned and new forms of co-existence are being negotiated. The introduction by Arjun Guneratne updates the reader on the social and political context in which the book is being re-issued besides highlighting some of the more pertinent issues now at stake in the Tarai, indications of which are scattered throughout Gaige's book." (jacket). …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Inclusion in Nepal. 2. Targeting and simplifying the quotas. 3. The method. 4. The census groups. 5. The election results per group. 6. Possible minimum quotas. Appendices. This book identifies which of Nepal's many caste and ethnic groups have managed to get elected to parliament (including the two constituent assemblies) since 1991 without any assistance from affirmative action and which groups have generally been excluded from unless some measures of inclusiveness are applied. It also provides suggestions on how these excluded groups can be ensured representation though the application of minimum quotas.…

Pbk. Contents Acknowledgements I Introduction to the Literature Review 1 Background 2 Objectives and methodology 3 Trafficking 4 Forced Labour 5 Migrant Labour 6 Traditional forms of bonded labour 7 Conclusion and Recommendations II Annotated Review of the Literature 1 Trafficking 2 Forced Labour 3 Migrant Labour 4 Bonded LabourThis book reviews the current state of knowledge on various aspects of trafficking and forced labour in Nepal The first part analyses issues related to different forms of labour exploitation It identifies the main obstacles to addressing associated problems and also highlights some of the best practices before concluding with recommendations that could help make planned interventions more effectiveThe second part consists of a detailed annotated bibliography of 256 books papers and articles on the subject It is divided into four broad categories of trafficking forced labour migrant labour and traditional forms of bondage The authors believe this will serve as a handy resource to both researchers and practitioners 210 pp.…

Pbk. The Interactive Mapping and Archive Project was created with the aim of mapping the cultural space of the Kathmandu Valley The main goals of the project were to digitize the art- and theatre-related materials of the Valley and to bring together people from various walks of life including painters theatre artists urban planners and architects to open a dialogue about the cities of Kathmandu This publication includes essays by IMAP fellows as well as other scholars who used materials in the digital archive to write about the cities of Kathmandu The essays included in this volume do not propose a grand meta-narrative about the fields of art and theatre or the city spaces that they examine What they provide are a number of windows and perspectives from which to look at these areas and examine the shifting meanings of concepts such as modernity globalization and urbanization It is hoped that such perspectives will invite still newer points of view and inspire scholars to do further research on the urban landscape of Kathmandu its architecture theatre art and performances 168 pp.…

This is a collection of the reports of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Security Council on political and human rights developments in Nepal and the briefings to the Council by his Special representative Ian MartinIt begins with the letter from the Secretary-General to the Security Council in response to the Nepali Governments request in 2006 for help with the then unfolding peace process and ends with Martins departure from Nepal in early 2009With Martins Frank retrospect on weaknesses of the peace process in his afterword this compilation provides an in-depth narrative of Nepals political evolution during the initial phase of its transition towards peace while also serving as a valuable record of that crucial period in Nepals history 186 pp.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. National instruments guiding labour migration in Nepal. 3. Bilateral instruments. 4. International instruments guiding Nepal's labour migration. 5. Conclusion. Annexes. References. Governing Labour Migration in Nepal looks at the legal and policy framework that regulates migrant labour originating in Nepal. It examines the country's laws related to foreign employment bilateral agreements signed with destination countries and international conventions ratified, all of which directly or indirectly govern labour migration from Nepal. Analysing the implications and relevance of the legal and policy regimes currently in place and identifying the gaps therein, the book provides recommendations that would help bring convergence in the welfare and rights standards enshrined in the various instruments. This volume will be a valuable addition to the literature on foreign labour migration a subject that is gaining greater significance the world over.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: 1. Introduction/Kim Berry and Shubhra Gururani. 2. Single but not alone: The journey from Stigma to collective identity through Himachal's Single Women's Movement/Kim Berry. 3. Strategic deployments of 'Sisterhood' and questions of solidarity at a women's development project in Janakpur, Nepal/Coralynn V. Davis. 4. Geographies that make resistance: Remapping the politics of gender and place in Uttarakhand, India/Shubhra Gururani. 5. Fields in motion, fields of friction: tales of 'Betrayal' and promise from Kangra District, India/Radhika Johari. 6. Gandhi's other daughter: Sarala Devi and Lakshmi Ashram/Rebecca Klenk. 7. Political transformations: collaborative feminist scholarship in Nepal/Andrea J. Nightingale and Katharine N. Rankin. The Contributors. Gender in the Himalaya: Cultural Politics of Gendered Identity, Place and Positionality engages with the vibrant field of feminist scholarship and brings together a collection of papers by scholars who have long-term research relations with communities in the Himalayan region. In considering the Himalaya as a frontier that is constituted by a range of context-specific forces as well as historically and politically positioned actors, the papers engage with the Himalayan region but are at once attentive to trans-local forces that configure gendered relations of work, mobility, mobilization, development and activism. Through a critical reading of colonial and nationalist gendered discourses, the contributors demonstrate how gendered relations and subjects are configured through the projects of development, feminism, regional autonomy, and neo-liberalism more broadly. By drawing on their sustained engagement with specific field sites and participation with various local and non-local interlocutors, the collections offers a grounded assessment of the ways that feminist readings of everyday practices can illuminate cultural politics of difference, inequality, and exclusion. Of additional concern to several of the authors are the politics of knowledge production, including the ethics of transnational feminist scholarship, and the politics of positionality in research and representation.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Scope and methods of study. 2. The dark age of Nepal's early mediaeval period. 3. Some considerations on the theories of caste and the background of the Licchavi state. 4. The early mediaeval period. 5. Brahman and Buddhist society of early mediaeval Nepal: alternating decline and ascendancy. 6. Lineage structure and caste groups in Newar society. 7. State and society. 8. Newar rites of passage and festivals. 9. Land, lineage and state. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. This study of mediaeval Nepal Kathmandu Valley attempts to show how over a period of 600 years the interplay of land, lineage and state strongly shaped Newar society, including some of its key institutions such as kinship, guthi, religion and caste as well as their settlement patterns. With a focus on the mediaeval era and using both historical and anthropological methods, the author discusses the gradual development of the Newari language and culture from the Licchavi era until the 1980s. He examines continuities and changes in different aspects of their society such as their rites and festivals, the interlinkages between land and lineage, the dynamics unleashed by Hinduism and Buddhism vying for supremacy, and the interface between state and society. Land, Lineage and State will be an important addition to the understanding of the Newar, who gave rise to arguably the most complex of Himalayan societies of the mediaeval period.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Tibetan communities across China are undergoing rapid and potentially irreversible social, economic and cultural changes. This book presents new perspectives on the current situation of Tibetans and provides a baseline for assessing the magnitude and direction of future changes. From a range of disciplinary perspectives the authors provide original analyses based on first hand fieldwork and a careful scrutiny of official documents and data as they examine three key aspects of Tibet's development: pastoral production labor and social policy. This collection of essays represents the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of development transitions on the Tibetan Plateau, and forms an important contribution to development studies of contemporary societies undergoing rapid change within China.…

Foldout map, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 443pp, minimal foxing edges, still a very good paperback copy. "Newar Society brings to the Anglophone world French anthropologist Gérard Toffin's work on the Newars. The book is of extreme importance for Newar studies, and it is also beneficial for other scholars who are interested in Nepal's unique form of South Asian Himalayan culture. Toffin is director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and has been conducting research in Nepal for more than thirty-five years. His classic Société et religion chez les Néwars du Nepal is based on research in the village of Pyangaon and the small city of Panauti. Newar Society widens his reach and is founded on a number of different research locations in the Kathmandu and Banepa valleys. As the book's introduction states, the study gives "an overall picture of some of the essential features of Newar society." (Publisher's description).…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Softcover. 1. Edition. 85 p. Like new. The reading pages are clean and without markings. Otherwise like new copy. 9789937826679 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 203 Seiten; 189 ganzseitige SW-Aufnahmen von Architekturen im Tal von Kathmandu, jedes Bild mit Aufnahmedatum, Lage und Gebäudebeschreibung versehen. Eine fasziniereende einzigartige Dokumentation zeitgenössichen Bauens. Die Gebäuden sind wohl "mit" einem Architekten entstanden, aber vermutlich "ohne" strenge Bauvorschriften, stellen also eine moderne Art der "Architektur ohne Architekten" dar. Gewicht in Gr. 1.000.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction by Chaitanya Mishra. 1. Introduction: Locating agency in 'Name Keeping'. 2. The setting: the place, people and the issues. 3. The cultural and economic context of Nepali women. 4. The history and politics of women's development. 5. Programme implementation in the Kamala Valley. 6. Unintended consequences: domesticating the public, socializing the domestic. 7. Conclusions: the motivations for memoreality. Glossary of Nepali terms. Bibliography. This is an ethnographic study of a group of rural women from south-central Nepal brought together by a development intervention. It details how these women used their collective identity forged through an income-generating project to address issues such as women's property rights, domestic violence, gambling and alcoholism, and even political representation. In examining the intended as well as unintended consequences of an externally initiated 'women's development project', Shah assesses the structural limitations of a development enterprise while also focusing on what he terms the creative agency of the project beneficiaries. This agency becomes apparent in a number of ways, including the construction and projection of memory into the domain of social significance, or 'memoreality'; the ready adoption of transnational flows of discourses, resources and legitimacies; and the use of the tools of development to politicise other arenas of socio-political life. A Project of Memoreality will serve as an important contribution to understanding the dynamics of women's activism in Nepal as well as the complexities of the development industry. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. An overview of deopatan. Maps: 1. Special maps. 2. Processional routes. 3. Statues, shrines and temples. 4. Map of V.S. 2008. Glossary. Index to maps. From the preface: This book is by way of being an introduction to Deopatan and the Pasupatiksetra, Pasupati's domain or the holy field surrounding the temple of Pasupatinatha. To a certain extent it summarizes the results of our own separate books on the topic, which for academic and administrative reasons had to be in German1 and Nepali2 given this unfortunate situation, we felt that we should make at least some of our findings accessible to and English-speaking readership. However, we did not feel that repeating all the descriptive details, exact historical dates and facts, tables, illustrations or bibliographical references presented in our previous publications would here be justified. We therefore decided to publish jointly the maps of the Pasupatiksetra for orientation purposes along with a short introduction into the ritual implications of the Pasupatiksetra, the whole addressed not only to readers familiar with the cultural situation in Nepal but also to a more general public.3 We have taken the liberty to use extracts from our books and articles on Deopatan published elsewhere.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. 1. Temple types under consideration. 2. Historical settings in Bengal and the Kathmandu Valley. 3. Ratna (jewel) style temples of Bengal. 4. Ratna style temples in the Kathmandu Valley. 5. Exchange of concepts. 6. Resume. Glossary. Bibliography. Acknowledgement. Illustrations figures. Plates. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Foreword/Christian Brosius. 2. Meanwhile in my neighbourhood: earthquake diary/Sanjeev Maharajan. 3. Sheelasha Rajbhandari and hit man Gurung : photo sketches. 4. In conversation Sanjeev Maharjan and Christiane Brosius. 5. Dina Bangdel post-earthquake art initiatives. 6. Sheelasha Rajbhandari and hit man Gurung artists in times of crisis. 7. Sanjeev Maharjan : stories from Thulo Byasi. 8. Sanjeev Maharjan : voices from Thulo Byasi. 9. In conversation : Sanjeev Maharjan and Hakalani. 10. Christiane brosius art in the aftermath of a catastrophe: gazing walking, participating in the city. How do artists look at their lifeworld after a catastrophe such as the earthquake in Nepal 2015? What does art mean in this context, what can it do? This book is a collaborative effort responding to these and other questions. It brings together the expertise of artists and curators, an art historian and an anthropologist, to offer a set of perspectives that reflect friction, fragility and precarity as much as perseverance and resilient strongholds. Centre-stage of the book are the photographs, interviews and an installation of artist Sanjeev Maharjan. They are discussed as a careful reflection of those weeks and months after the earthquake hit, but beyond that also invite us to address the broader context of art's role in society, and of an urbanising world in flux. Lastly, the different views in this book also facilitate the breaking of dominant narratives of catastrophe that often over shadow individual experiences by means of heightened sensationalism.…

Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust cover. Signed by author and illustrator on title page. (Nepal, Ethnology).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Muluki Ain of 1854 is a long legal document that formed the basis of law and government in in Nepal for almost 100 years. It reflects orthodox Hindu values and deals with a wide range of social and cultural issues. This book takes it as the basis for an ethnographical study, focusing particularly on caste and the structure of Nepalese society before 1951. By Andras Hofer with an introduction by Prayag Raj Sharma. Published by Himal Books, Nepal. 2005 reprint of the 2004 second edition (first edition published 1979).Softcover with a little shelf wear and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper, but remaining in very good condition. Copyright A© Himal Books.…

4°, Brosch., 189 S. - Frisches Exemplar. Buch.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Nepal's development efforts, signed presentation ffep, and previous owners name ffep otherwise unmarked, 280pp, VG/VG. Book.