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Nepal: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley (Book)

Most of the Nepal books I’ve read begin with a digestible dose of history: ancient rule, geographical regions, ethnic groups, social order, religion. I think this book’s version is more insightful, original and politically sensitive than the others. That’s followed by a chapter on Kathmandu’s architecture. Lots of people travel around the world specifically to admire temples and castles and things, but my interest in buildings is cursory at best. So I was surprised to […]

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Bibliographical & Other Resources

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River Rafting Company Recommended by our Momentum Adventures guide on the Upper Klamath trip: http://www.driftnepal.com.np South Asia Bibliographies: Nepal A comprehensive listing compiled by UC Berkeley and subcategorized by academic area and media type. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/nepal.html Encylopedia Smithsonian: South Asian, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern Art and Architecture Another cool bibliography. http://www.smithsonian.org/Encyclopedia_SI/freersac/seasiart.htm Human Rights Watch Publications: Asia/Nepal On forced relocation, child soldiers, disappearances… http://hrw.org/doc/?t=asia_pub&c=nepal

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Nepal: A Cultural & Physical Geography (Book)

By Pradyumna P. Karan. University of Kentucky Press, 1960. My thoughts… This book is a treasure. Particularly intriguing is where it sits in history. As the author points out, the year before this volume was published, King Mahendra proclaimed a new constitution for Nepal and the country had its first election. It was also around this time that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet. Only a decade earlier, Nepal’s border were largely closed […]

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South Asian Folklore (Book)

Book description… “This book is a brief but thorough introduction to folklore from South Asia, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The volume begins with an overview of the cultural background of South Asia, and examines different types of folklore and the difficulties of defining and classifying folklore genres. It then provides a substantial selection of legends, tales, myths, riddles, jokes, and other pieces of folklore from South Asia. This is […]

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