Chene Mary (5 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is in nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Lower corner of cover has a crease.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages with reading wear throughout. Previous owner's name on title page. Wrappers have crease at spine, light edge wear and creasing at corner tips, and overall handling wear. Contents: Why studies in Nepali History and Society? Guneratne, The tax man cometh: the impact of revenue collection on subsistence strategies in Chitwan Tharu society. Onta, Creating a brave nation in British India: the rhetoric of Jati. Improvement, rediscovery of Bhanubhakta and the writing of Bir history. Subedi, Literary response to Panchayat utopia. Des Chene, Ethnography in the Janajati-yug: lessons from reading Rodhi and other Tamu writings. Onta-Bhatta, Street children: contested identities and universalizing categories. Liechty, Paying for modernity: women and the discourse of freedom in Kathmandu. Joshi, Diagnoses of the Nepali economy: a review of the analyses of economic liberalization policies in Nepal. Bhattachan, Teaching and learning process in social sciences at Tribhuvan University: a need to move from a boot-camp to a bazaar model. Books received. 8.5" tall; 258 pages.…

pbk. Contents. Editorial. In the name of Bikas/Mary des Chene. Articles. 1. Technologies of improvement locations of culture. American discourses of democracy and community development in Nepal/Tatsuro Fujikura. 2. Local benefits from hydro development/Bikash Pandey. 3. Naming ceremonies as rituals of development/Kamal Adhikary. 4. Kathmandu's garbage. simple solutions going to waste/Bhushan Tuladhar. 5. Planning for equity. ethical principles form Newar representations of finance/Katharine Rankin. Literature review. 1. The status of women in Nepal 15 years on/Shizu Upadhya. Commentary. Ta'Angzoum among the cows/Manjushree Thapa. Books received. 468 pp.…

pbk. Contents. Articles. Special Theme. Nepali Banaras. 1. Nepali Kings and Kasi. On the changing significance of a sacred centre/Martin Gaenszle. 2. Pandits and pulp fiction. Pandits and pulp fiction. popular publishing and the birth of Nepali print capitalism in Banaras/Rhoderick Chalmers. 3. The everyday life of American development in Nepal/Heather Hindman. 4. Capsular promise as public health. a critique of the Nepal National Vitamin a Programme/Ian Harper. Commentary. 1. Nonsense narrative. an abstract history/Manjushree Thapa. One article is in Hindi. 222 pp. figs (illustrator).…

Condition: Fine. Très bon état. in8. 1987. broché. 126 pages. Plein Chant N°35 'Portraits & autres' est un numéro de la revue littéraire des éditions Plein Chant spécialisée dans la littérature prolétarienne et la redécouverte de textes rares. Il s'inscrit dans le projet éditorial singulier d'Edmond Thomas fondateur de la maison consacré à donner voix aux gens du peuple et à une soif de justice sociale par le livre. Fine.…