Download or read book The Chepangs a Study in Continuity and Change written by Gaṇeśamāna Guruṅga and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden Hunter Gatherers of Indian Ocean With appendix written by Sergey Gabbasov and published by Litres. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author analyzes different groups of hunters and gatherers which live around the coast of Indian Ocean – from the hill jungles of North Thailand to the sandy shores of South Madagascar, from the foothills of Himalaya to the savannahs of central India and deep forests of Sri Lanka.The research is based on the big fieldwork expedition experience and huge bibliography references.
Download or read book Mission in Context In Search of Asian Strategic Communication of the Gospel written by Thang Deih Lian Davidlianno and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a profusion of missional issues emerging in the Asian fields that call Christ's followers to actively witnessing the Truth. Missionaries from different continents have come to serve the Asian nations, and yet, these God's loving missionaries' effectiveness often seem to have left in the shade by some damaging fruits and (sometimes) being too much of Westernness stemming from a diversity of lacking knowledge particularly the local contexts to contextualize, and lack of preparation. The irrefutable finding is appealing within the Asian mission study in regard to the essentiality in equipping the Christians so that the ministries in Asia will experience the effectiveness in cultivating the diverse contexts (cultures) with the text (Scripture) they have. Many principles and practical information from this book grew out of the authors' experiences and the reflection of Missiologists and scholars such as Andrew Walls, Christopher Wright, Kazoh Kitamori, Paul Hiebert, etc.
Download or read book Chepangs Resources and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of papers presented at the Gathering of the Concerned on Chepangs, Resources, and Development jointly organized by School of Ecology, Agriculture, and Community Works and the Netherlands Development Organisation, Nepal, held at Chitawan, Nepal, February 7-9, 1995.
Download or read book Kings of the Forest written by Jana Fortier and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of western Nepal: the Raute. Kings of the Forest explores how this elusive ethnic group, the last hunter-gatherers of the Himalayas, maintains its traditional way of life amidst increasing pressure to assimilate. Author Jana Fortier examines Raute social strategies of survival as they roam the lower Himalayas gathering wild yams and hunting monkeys. Hunting is part of a symbiotic relationship with local Hindu farmers, who find their livelihoods threatened by the monkeys’ raids on their crops. Raute hunting helps the Hindus, who consider the monkeys sacred and are reluctant to kill the animals themselves. Fortier explores Raute beliefs about living in the forest and the central importance of foraging in their lives. She discusses Raute identity formation, nomadism, trade relations, and religious beliefs, all of which turn on the foragers’ belief in the moral goodness of their unique way of life. The book concludes with a review of issues that have long been important to anthropologists—among them, biocultural diversity and the shift from an evolutionary focus on the ideal hunter-gatherer to an interest in hunter-gatherer diversity. Kings of the Forest will be welcomed by readers of anthropology, Asian studies, environmental studies, ecology, cultural geography, and ethnic studies. It will also be eagerly read by those who recognize the critical importance of preserving and understanding the connections between biological and cultural diversity.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Nepal written by Nanda R. Shrestha and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nepal is a living example of contrasts and contradictions.It is a country that was born in medieval times, grew up in the 16th century, and now finds itself engulfed in the high-tech gadgets and material marvels of the 21st century. Nepal has its share of problem which include inadequate economic development and social infrastructure, poverty and corruption, plus worsening pollution, but now it finally has relative peace and quiet after a hasty Maoist uprising. Indeed, it has passed through several democratic elections, and finally seems to be getting on the right track. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Nepal contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Nepal.
Download or read book Shamanism 2 volumes written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Download or read book Report from a Chepang Village written by Gaṇeśamāna Guruṅga and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social life and customs of Chepang, Nepalese people in Raksirang village and their ecological setup of the area.
Download or read book Dictionary of Chepang written by Ross Charles Caughley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Study of Agrarian Relations in Nepal 1846 1951 written by Shankar Thapa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on History and Change in the Karakorum Hindukush and Himalaya written by Irmtraud Stellrecht and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this proceedings volume emerged from an interdisciplinary workshop, held in April 1995, which brought together members of two high-mountain research projects supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society). Regionally, the focus was on northern Pakistan, India and Nepal. The main topic common to all participants was the dynamic aspect of the relationships between highlands and lowlands in the past and the present, and their impact in the high mountain regions on trade, population structure, ethnic and religious identity-forming processes as well as the use of the environment. In addition, this volume discusses the aspects and implementations of policies aimed at sustainable development in the Himalayan regions of Pakistan, India and Nepal.
Download or read book Nepalese Culture Annual Journal of NeHCA written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chitawan Tharus in Southern Nepal written by Ulrike Müller-Böker and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Chitawan Tharu, eine ethnische Gruppe im suedlichen Nepal, stehen im Zentrum dieser Publikation. Basierend auf ethno�kologisch-klassifikatorischen und Indigenous-Knowledge Ans�tzen werden Kenntnis, Bewertung und Nutzung der natuerlichen Umwelt untersucht. Es wird versucht, die Umwelt mit den Augen derer zu sehen, die in ihr handeln. Damit liefert die Arbeit wertvolle Anregungen fuer entwicklungspolitische Ans�tze, die eine Entwicklung �von unten� propagieren. Zun�chst werden die theoretisch-methodischen Grundlagen des ethno�kologischen Ansatzes entwickelt; Chitawan und seine Bewohner werden vorgestellt. Die folgenden betont ethno�kologisch orientierten Kapitel befassen sich mit der natuerlichen Umwelt aus der Sicht der Tharu, mit ihrer traditionellen Wirtschaftsweise und Technologie. Abschlie�end werden die unterschiedlichen Konzepte von Umweltbewertung herausgearbeitet, die im Konflikt um einen Nationalpark aufeinandertreffen. "The remarkable achievement of this book is that it highlights the interface of socially relevant information focussing on the natural environment of the Tharus from the perspective of their indigenous knowledge. It provides the reader with insights which can only be obtained through an inter-disciplinary approach." Internationales Asienforum "For anyone interested in Southern Nepal and Chitawan, and its National Park and people, this book is exceptional. [�] this text provides a fascinating and thorough insight into the life of the Tharus people in Southern Nepal through the eyes of an experienced, competent and respectful researcher. I highly recommend it." The Geographical Journal .
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples written by Gaṇeśamāna Guruṅga and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the context of sustainable development and process of social mobility in Nepal.
Download or read book Shamanism in Performing Arts written by International Society for Shamanistic Research and published by Akademiai Kiads. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers and lectures from two 1993 conferences of the International Society for Shamanistic Research, reporting on current research in artistic aspects of shamanism and focusing on shamanic practices in Asia and Eurasia. Topics include Manchu shamanic dance; shamanic visual art of Nepal; ancient Hungarian folk songs and shamanic songs of the minorities of North China; the poetry of shamanism; and the revival of shamanism in the contemporary North. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Aspects of Migration and Mobility in Nepal written by Susanne Von Der Heide (ed.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dealing with Disasters written by Diana Riboli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges—cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated. A range of geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this volume will be of particular interest to readers working in shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and religious and ritual studies.
