Book description: “Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/ history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices… The diversity of peoples, recent political transformations, and nation-building efforts make Nepal an especially rich locale to examine people’s struggles to define and position themselves… [T]his collection offers a richly textured and complex accounting of the mutual constitution of selves and society” My […]
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In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet – Bhutan – Nepal – Sikkim (Book)
A Photographic Record by John Claude White, 1883-1908. (July 2006) My thoughts… White was a British-Indian civil servant who lived in Nepal from 1883–4, one of only five Westerners allowed into the country that year. His sepia photos include the usual stunning mountain shots, along with a few Kathmandu scenes I’ll get to see in real life — like Pashupati Temple on the Baghmati River — except there’ll be globs more people. There are lots […]
Read moreFolk Tales of Nepal (Book)
Edited by N. Sharma. South Asia Books; 1 edition (March 1996) My thoughts… I love how folk tales reveal their culture’s wisdom and humor. These are charming and well written.
Read moreHimalaya Books I Hope To Read
Four referenced in Ed Douglas’ Chomolungma Sings the Blues: The Sherpa of Khumbu (Barbara Brower) Ascent of Rum Doodle (WE Bowman). A parody. Nepal Himalaya (Bill Thilman) Travels in Nepal (Charlie Pye Smith) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . […]
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