Author: Robert Desjarlais
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: nepal, yolmo, buddhists, among, deaths, biographies, lives, sensory
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-01-06
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520235886
ISBN-13: 9780520235885
Robert Desjarlais’s graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal.It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themse
Authors:Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: nepal, taiwan, chinese, characters, japan, vol, planning, policy, asia, language
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1847690955
ISBN-13: 9781847690951
This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation - including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.
Author: Stan Royal Mumford
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: new, directions, anthropological, writing, nepal, shamans, dialogue, tibetan, lamas, gurung, himalayan
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1989-12-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 029911984X
ISBN-13: 9780299119843
Authors:Jacquiline Touba, Barbara Glasser,
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: living, artists, world, simple, painting, chandra, bahadur, ale, nepal
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 1998-08
List price: $21.25
ISBN-10: 0823951030
ISBN-13: 9780823951031
Using a painting by a Nepalese boy as illustration, discusses what life is like in the country of Nepal.
Author: K. R. van Kooij
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: religions, section, indian, iconography, nepal, religion
Number of Pages: 33
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 9004058273
ISBN-13: 9789004058279
Authors:Narayan P. Manandhar, Sanjay Manandhar,
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: nepal, people, plants
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0881925276
ISBN-13: 9780881925272
Narayan P. Manandhar has spent decades in a firsthand study of the ethnobotanical riches of Nepal’s flora. He has conducted field research in all 75 districts of Nepal, on foot, in a lifelong effort to identify the plants and record their traditional roles in Nepalese society. The result is this book, his magnum opus, in which he describes the uses of an astonishing 1517 kinds of plants belonging to 858 genera and 195 families, equal to perhaps one-fifth of the entire Nepalese flora. This indigenous wisdom is dying with the older generation, so we are fortunate that the author has rescue
Author: Tessa Feller
Publisher: Kuperard
Keywords: culture, customs, amp, guide, essential, smart, nepal
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1857334582
ISBN-13: 9781857334586
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of
