Pokharel Binod (16 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. vi, 68p, ills, tables, map. The Mallah, boatmen or fishermen, live in Nepal's western Tarai. Ethnographic Research Series #22.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. vii, 90p, ills, tables, maps. The Nuniya are a caste group living in the eastern and central regions of Nepal's Tarai. Ethnographic Research Series #7.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. vi, 84p, ills, tables, map. The Mali live in Nepal's Tarai. Ethnographic Research Series #21.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 473 pages. A collection of 17 papers by Nepali anthropologists.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. xviii, 358p. A collection of 13 papers by Nepali scholars.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxii, 142p, tables.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. viii, 473p. Essays by Nepali anthropologists on kinship, culture, environment and change, gender and health, religion and ritual, urbanism, and infrastructure and portering.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Demography, settlement, territory. 3. History, society and culture. 4. State of human development (Economy/employment, education and health). 6. Conclusion and policy implications. Bibliography. Glossary. Annex. This Ethnographic Research Series represents one part of a larger research project undertaken by the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University from 2011 to 2013 to design a Social Inclusion Atlas and Ethnographic profiles (SIA-EP) for Nepal. The SIA-EP project has four interrelated components, including a country-wide Nepal Social Inclusion Survey (NSIS), a Nepal Multidimensional Social Inclusion Index (NSII) combining original surveying with the findings of other recent surveys and the 2011 Census, a Social Inclusion Atlas that maps caste ethnicity data, and finally a series of Ethnographic Profiles describing the 42 highly-excluded communities of Nepal. The overall objective of the SIA-EP research was to promote a more informed understanding of Nepal social diversity by producing research based on the most current information of the country's cultural and linguistic diversity and the status of social inclusion of different social groups. The combination of quantitative and qualitative information produced through this research is expected to contribute to policy design, research and education.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Demography, settlement, territory. 3. History, society and culture. 4. State of human development. 5. Current issues of exclusion and inclusion. 6. Conclusion and policy implications. References. This Ethnographic Research Series represents one part of a larger research project undertaken by the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University from 2011 to 2013 to design a Social Inclusion Atlas and Ethnographic profiles (SIA-EP) for Nepal. The SIA-EP project has four interrelated components, including a country-wide Nepal Social Inclusion Survey (NSIS), a Nepal Multidimensional Social Inclusion Index (NSII) combining original surveying with the findings of other recent surveys and the 2011 Census, a Social Inclusion Atlas that maps caste ethnicity data, and finally a series of Ethnographic Profiles describing the 42 highly-excluded communities of Nepal. The overall objective of the SIA-EP research was to promote a more informed understanding of Nepal social diversity by producing research based on the most current information of the country's cultural and linguistic diversity and the status of social inclusion of different social groups. The combination of quantitative and qualitative information produced through this research is expected to contribute to policy design, research and education.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Demography, settlement, territory. 3. Culture and society. 4. State of human development (economy/employment education and health). 5. Current issues of identity and exclusion. 6. Conclusion and policy implications. References. This Ethnographic Research Series represents one part of a larger research project undertaken by the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University from 2011 to 2013 to design a Social Inclusion Atlas and Ethnographic profiles (SIA-EP) for Nepal. The SIA-EP project has four interrelated components, including a country-wide Nepal Social Inclusion Survey (NSIS), a Nepal Multidimensional Social Inclusion Index (NSII) combining original surveying with the findings of other recent surveys and the 2011 Census, a Social Inclusion Atlas that maps caste ethnicity data, and finally a series of Ethnographic Profiles describing the 42 highly-excluded communities of Nepal. The overall objective of the SIA-EP research was to promote a more informed understanding of Nepal social diversity by producing research based on the most current information of the country's cultural and linguistic diversity and the status of social inclusion of different social groups. The combination of quantitative and qualitative information produced through this research is expected to contribute to policy design, research and education. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Demography, settlement and territory. 3. Society and culture. 4. State of human development (economy/employment, education and health). 5. Current issues of exclusion and inclusion. 6. Conclusion and policy implications. References. Glossary. Annexures. This Ethnographic Research Series represents one part of a larger research project undertaken by the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University from 2011 to 2013 to design a Social Inclusion Atlas and Ethnographic profiles (SIA-EP) for Nepal. The SIA-EP project has four interrelated components, including a country-wide Nepal Social Inclusion Survey (NSIS), a Nepal Multidimensional Social Inclusion Index (NSII) combining original surveying with the findings of other recent surveys and the 2011 Census, a Social Inclusion Atlas that maps caste ethnicity data, and finally a series of Ethnographic Profiles describing the 42 highly-excluded communities of Nepal. The overall objective of the SIA-EP research was to promote a more informed understanding of Nepal social diversity by producing research based on the most current information of the country's cultural and linguistic diversity and the status of social inclusion of different social groups. The combination of quantitative and qualitative information produced through this research is expected to contribute to policy design, research and education. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Revisiting kinship studies in Nepali Anthropology: a critique and a proposal/Laya Prasad Uprety. 2. Kinship structure in Nepali Society: A reexamination of the unilineal descent system/Dilli R. Dahal. 3. "Not my Relative" Reckoning kinship and relatedness among the Lobas of Mustang/Ram B. Chhetri. 4. Territorial marriage pattern and kinship relation among the Bahun-Chhetris in Kanth of Kathmandu/Binod Pokharel and Uma Bhandari. 5. "Dhimal-Limbu Daju Bhai": Inter-ethnic kinship, place-making and indigenous activism in the Eastern Nepal/Janak Rai. 6. Syaisyai as an Institution for creating solidarity: Death rite passage and kin roles in the Gurung community/Prakash Upadhyay. 7. Mit relation in far west: ritual, reciprocity and reproduction of social relationship/Suresh Dhakal and Nabin Rawal. 8. Tamang Clans and social organization/Mukta S. Tamang. 9. The political economy of kinship and marriage among the Musahars/Madhu Giri. 10. Conversion to Christianity and changing kinship practice among the Santhal people in the Eastern Tarai, Nepal/Lagan Rai. 11. Cross-cousin marriage practices among the Magars of Nepal: An anthropological perspective/Shyamu Thapa Magar. 12. Functions of Kinship in ecological adaptation: an ethnographic study from a village of Eastern Nepal/Bhanu Timseena. 13. Kinship network among the Tharus: preliminary ethnographic observations from Western Terai of Nepal/Surya Bhakta Sigdel.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. 1. Introductory remarks on the contemporary Nepali social and cultural anthropology/L.P. Uprety, B. Pokharel, J. Rai, S. Dhakal and M.S. Lama. I. Kinship: 2. Changing affinal relations among the Bahuns: an ethnographic study of Kinship practice through Bahun-Newar intermarriage/Anisha Bhattarai. 3. Exploring changes in the cross-cousin marriage among the Gurungs of Nepal/Jaya Thapa. II. Culture, resource, environment and change: 4. Anthropological perspective on water, sanitation and hygiene development: an analysis of the community level observations/Kamal Raj Sharma. 5. Climate change and disaster vulnerability in upper mustang of Nepal/Man Bahadur Khatttri. 6. Anthropology of landslide: an emic perspective from Nhason/Jiban Mani Poudel. III. Gender and Health: 7. Climate change and gender relations in Nepal: reckoning climate change vulnerability on gender relations in the post-earthquake period/Prakash Upadhyay. 8. Though the metaphor: reflection and reshaping selves, situations and health/Kapil Dahal. 9. Nepalese women in informal sector: an overview of women in labor market/Guneshwor Ojha. 10. Gender response to disaster: a case study from Barpak, Gorkha/Kusumlata Tiwari. IV. Religion and ritual: 11. From Pande to Pastor: experiences and practices of the early Christian converts in the Chepang (Chyobang) community/Lagan Rai. 12. Ritual and religious meaning/relevance of the Maharaj Than/Gramthan and Annual ritual Nisi Puja among the Rajbanshis/Bhim Rai. 13. Soil worship practices among the Nuniyas of Eastern Tarai, Nepal/Srijana Thapaliya. V. Urbanism, Infrastructure and Portering: 14. Cities are what cities perform: theorizing cities in Nepali context/Amrit Kumar Bhandari. 15. The politics of road: an ethnography of Bhalubang-Pyuthan road of Western Nepal/Shyam Kunwar. 16. Dreams of dollars at high altitude: an anthropological study of porters involved in trekking around the Khumbu region, Nepal/Khadga Narayan Shrestha. VI. Institutional development of Nepali anthropology: 17. Anthropology as an Independent discipline in Nepal: recent developmental history, practice and vortex of epistemological and institutional challenges/Laya Prasad Uprety and Binod Pokharel.…