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Book Synopsis Socio-political Dynamics of Nepali Paintings by :
Download or read book Socio-political Dynamics of Nepali Paintings written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Buddhist Art of Living in Nepal by : Lauren Leve
Download or read book The Buddhist Art of Living in Nepal written by Lauren Leve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theravada Buddhism has experienced a powerful and far-reaching revival in modern Nepal, especially among the Newar Buddhist laity, many of whom are reorganizing their lives according to its precepts, practices and ideals. This book documents these far-reaching social and personal transformations and links them to political, economic and cultural shifts associated with late modernity, and especially neoliberal globalization. Nepal has changed radically over the last century, particularly since the introduction of liberal democracy and an open-market economy in 1990. The rise of lay vipassana meditation has also dramatically impacted the Buddhist landscape. Drawing on recently revived understandings of ethics as embodied practices of self-formation, the author argues that the Theravada turn is best understood as an ethical movement that offers practitioners ways of engaging, and models for living in, a rapidly changing world. The book takes readers into the Buddhist reform from the perspectives of its diverse practitioners, detailing devotees' ritual and meditative practices, their often conflicted relations to Vajrayana Buddhism and Newar civil society, their struggles over identity in a formerly Hindu nation-state, and the political, cultural, institutional and moral reorientations that becoming a "pure Buddhist"—as Theravada devotees understand themselves—entails. Based on more than 20 years of anthropological fieldwork, this book is an important contribution to scholarly debates over modern Buddhism, ethical practices, and the anthropology of religion. It is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Religion, Anthropology, Buddhism and Philosophy.
Book Synopsis Nepal Art Now by : Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha
Download or read book Nepal Art Now written by Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha and published by KERBER VERLAG. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art world is on the move. As part of a critical reassessment of European-American art in an international context, many previously marginalized showplaces have been gaining the attention they are due?hence, also the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu. In a large arc from modernism to the vibrant most recent present, the Weltmuseum in Vienna is honoring the outstanding art of Nepal. The exhibition shows how local and global cultures continuously pervade one another and, simultaneously, how Nepalese artists give expression to their own identity.00Exhibition: Weltmuseum, Wien, Austria (11.04. - 06.11.2019).
Book Synopsis Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia: Political and social transformations in north India and Nepal by : Hiroshi Ishii
Download or read book Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia: Political and social transformations in north India and Nepal written by Hiroshi Ishii and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Book Synopsis Social Engineering - CTEVT Edition: Nepal by : KV Sambasivarao & Davuluri Sunitha
Download or read book Social Engineering - CTEVT Edition: Nepal written by KV Sambasivarao & Davuluri Sunitha and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been specifically developed according to the syllabus prescribed by Council for Technical Education and Vocational, Nepal for all Engineering students. The book has been developed in view of the recent development of the subject. This book gives a simple but systematic introduction and explanation to all the 6 chapters. Topics like, introduction to sociology, social study and social science; economy condition of Nepal, social and cultural change; introduction of social development and services; concept of social survey and Ethics and Moral are covered as per the requirements of the syllabus. I have taken sufficient care to be simple, lucid and precise in my explanation of the topics so that it becomes student friendly.
Book Synopsis Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal by : David N. Gellner
Download or read book Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal written by David N. Gellner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The socio-political landscape of Nepal has been rocked by dramatic and far-reaching changes in the past thirty years. Following a ten-year Maoist revolution and civil war, the country has transitioned from a monarchy to a republic. The former Hindu kingdom has declared its commitment to secularism, without coming to any agreement on what secularism means or should mean in the Nepalese context. What happens to religion under conditions of such rapid social and political change? How do the changes in public festivals reflect and/or create new group identities? Is the gap between the urban and the rural narrowing? How is the state dealing with Nepal’s multicultural and multi-religious society? How are Nepalis understanding, resisting, and adapting ideas of secularism? In order to answer these important questions, this volume brings together eleven case studies by an international team of anthropologists and ethno-Indologists of Nepal on such diverse topics as secularism, individualism, shamanism, animal sacrifice, the role of state functionaries in festivals, clashes and synergies between Maoism and Buddhism, and conversion to Christianity. In an Afterword, renowned political theorist Rajeev Bhargava presents a comparative analysis of Nepal’s experiences and asks whether the country is finding its own solution to the conundrum of secularism.
Book Synopsis Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics by : Mark A. Fonstad
Download or read book Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics written by Mark A. Fonstad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountains have captured the interests and passions of people for thousands of years. Today, millions of people live within mountain regions, and mountain regions are often areas of accelerated environmental change. This edited volume highlights new understanding of mountain environments and mountain peoples around the world. The understanding of mountain environments and peoples has been a focus of individual researchers for centuries; more recently the interest in mountain regions among researchers has been growing rapidly. The articles contained within are from a wide spectrum of researchers from different parts of the world who address physical, political, theoretical, social, empirical, environmental, methodological, and economic issues focused on the geography of mountains and their inhabitants. The articles in this special issue are organized into three themed sections with very loose boundaries between themes: (1) physical dynamics of mountain environments, (2) coupled human–physical dynamics, and (3) sociocultural dynamics in mountain regions. This book was first published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Book Synopsis Reproduction of Inequality and Social Exclusion by : Uddhab Pyakurel
Download or read book Reproduction of Inequality and Social Exclusion written by Uddhab Pyakurel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed account of how hierarchy has been maintained historically by the Nepali state, affirming the uniqueness of a caste-based social order by bringing outsiders, especially ethnic groups and religious minorities, into the caste fold. Focusing on the contemporary state of Dalits, the community that was and is put at the bottom of a very hierarchical social order in Nepal, the author argues that the traditional caste-based social order is still prevalent in the “new” Nepal even after the recent socio-political and constitutional changes. Illustrated by scientifically employed and interpreted data mainly in the three sectors of education, politics and employment, the book postulates that people who were and are born into the “high caste” still have more access to the resources and opportunities available in society in comparison with those born into the “lower” caste. It further argues that although reservation policies are in place to address social exclusion, these could not bring expected outcomes mainly due to the lack of engagement, if not ignorance, of both dominant groups and the community in the margin. The absence of clarity among political actors on the positive discrimination and affirmative actions has contributed to backtracking the recently created space in line with “inclusive Nepal”.
Book Synopsis Sporadically Radical by : Steffen Jensen
Download or read book Sporadically Radical written by Steffen Jensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes young men willing to risk their lives by enrolling in violent organizations? How do these organizations persuade young men to do so? In the age of radicalization, these questions are central to most debates about politics and globalization. Through long-term ethnographic fieldwork in various conflict settings, this volume explores both the violent organizations that entice young people to engage in conflict and how these same young people answer the call. It takes the reader into the worlds of Maoists in Nepal; ex-combatants, mercenaries, religious ‘zealots’ and drug dealers in West Africa; violent student politics in Bangladesh; ethno-nationalist vigilante groups in Kenya; both sides of the war between LRA and the Ugandan state as well as gang-like fraternities in the Philippines. When researched in situ and in-depth, these mobilizations show themselves to be multiple, performative and temporary, just as people may show themselves to be more sporadically radical than ideologically locked down.
Download or read book Nepal written by Axel Michaels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Nepal spans pre-historic times and the Licchavi Period to more recent developments, such as the Maoist insurgency and the rise of the republic. In addition to religious history and histories of selected regions (Mustang, Sherpa, Tarai, and others), it covers the nation's relations with its powerful neighbors and its cultural aspects, especially its rich history of arts, architecture, and crafts.
Book Synopsis Journal of Nepalese Literature, Art, and Culture by :
Download or read book Journal of Nepalese Literature, Art, and Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voicing Subjects by : Laura Kunreuther
Download or read book Voicing Subjects written by Laura Kunreuther and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voicing Subjects traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu. It explores two seemingly distinct formations of voice that have emerged in the midst of the country’s recent political and economic upheavals: a political voice associated with civic empowerment and collective agency, and an intimate voice associated with emotional proximity and authentic feeling. Both are produced and circulated through the media, especially through interactive technologies. The author argues that these two formations of voice are mutually constitutive and aligned with modern ideologies of democracy and neoliberal economic projects. This ethnography is set during an extraordinary period in Nepal’s history that has seen a relatively peaceful 1990 revolution that re-established democracy, a Maoist civil war, and the massacre of the royal family. These dramatic changes have been accompanied by the proliferation of intimate and political discourse in the expanding public sphere, making the figure of voice ever more critical to an understanding of emerging subjectivity, structural change and cultural mediation.
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Book Synopsis Area Handbook for Nepal (with Sikkim and Bhutan). by : American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
Download or read book Area Handbook for Nepal (with Sikkim and Bhutan). written by American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rehearsing for Life by : Monica Mottin
Download or read book Rehearsing for Life written by Monica Mottin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents an account of what it means to perform theatre and live by theatre, grounded in ethnographic research.
Book Synopsis Kings of the Forest by : Jana Fortier
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 234 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.
Book Synopsis Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia by : Sadan Jha
Download or read book Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia written by Sadan Jha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and sensorial experiences of non-metropolitan, small and intermediate cities, the chapters in the volume look at neighbourhoods as a key to exploring the textures of urban life. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning, and social history, the book highlights urban heterogeneity and contemporary transformations in South Asia. It discusses the linkages between urban lived spaces and social life; memory, migration, and exile; and the city and its society through practices of everyday life in neighbourhoods. With studies from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India, the volume addresses a wide range of issues pertaining to urban experiences in their regional specificities and in a broader context of the Global South. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning and development, social history, political studies, cultural studies, geography, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners and policymakers, architects, planners, civil society organisations, and thinktanks.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Nepal by : Leo E. Rose
Download or read book The Politics of Nepal written by Leo E. Rose and published by Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: