The Chitawan Tharus in Southern Nepal

The Chitawan Tharus in Southern Nepal

Author: Ulrike Müller-Böker

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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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 .


Ethnobotany

Ethnobotany

Author: Jose L. Martinez

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 042975387X

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Ethnobotany: Local Knowledge and Traditions discusses various plants that have actually been used in traditional medicine for a specific ailment. It desribes the biological effectiveness (activities) related to each "sickness" which have been scientifically verified. This book will also discuss the bioactivities established/determined that are promising and have potential. Finally, this book will be an appropriate consultation tool for scientists/professionals/experts such as ethnobotanists, botanists, cell/molecular biologists, chemists, pharmacists, pharmacologists, environmentalists/ecologists.


Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal

Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal

Author: Matthew Maycock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1351398393

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South Asia is the region with the highest number of slaves globally according to the Global Slavery Index. Bonded labour affects between 15 and 20 million labourers within the region, and is shaped by locally specific interconnections between ethnicity, class, caste and, critically, gender structures. Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal explores the role of masculinity in shaping the structures and experience of slavery and subsequent freedom. While many I/NGOs and human rights organisations use freedom from slavery as a powerful and emotive goal, the lived reality of freedom for many bonded labourers often results in disappointment and frustration as they navigate diverse expectations of masculinity. Taking Nepal as a case study, the book illustrates how men’s gendered experiences of bondedness and freedom can inform perspectives on the transition to freedom and modernity in South Asia more broadly. Researchers of modern slavery, gender studies, and South Asian studies will be interested in the rich analysis on offer in this book.


Disappearing Peoples?

Disappearing Peoples?

Author: Barbara Brower

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1315430398

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South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of change including environmental degradation, population growth, land loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy. Each chapter, written by an expert scholar for a general audience, offers a cultural overview, explores both threats to survival and the group's responses, and provokes discussion and further research with "food for thought." This powerful documentation of both tragedy and hope for the twenty-first-century survival of centuries-old cultures is a key reference for anyone interested in the region, in cultural survival, or in the interplay of diversification and homogenization.


Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities

Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities

Author: Carl Skutsch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 1510

ISBN-13: 1135193886

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This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.


Social Networks and Migration

Social Networks and Migration

Author: Susan Thieme

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9783825892463

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In Far West Nepal - an area extremely impoverished also by Nepalese standards - labour migration to India has been an integral part of the livelihood strategies of the majority of people for several generations. This research is based on case studies among male and female migrants in Delhi coming from four villages of Far West Nepal. The analysis focuses on selected aspects of the migrants' daily lives, such as working and living conditions, management of loans and savings, and remittance transfer. It was found, that the whole migration process is mainly facilitated by transnational kin and friendship networks. To grasp the geographical and social dimensions of the migrant's lives an integrative approach in joining the sustainable livelihoods approach, Bourdieu's theory of practice, the concept of social capital and the concept of transnational migration was developed. Further results show, that the majority of the migrants are male. The unskilled migrants occupy a distinct niche, in which men have been working as watchmen and car cleaners for generations. The job market is highly organized since jobs are handed over and sold within networks. If wives of migrants are in Delhi for longer periods, they engage in housekeeping. For financial needs migrants established their own informal savings and credit associations. Although migration is firstly seen as an opportunity by the migrants, it can as well perpetuate debt and dependency and entail that they remain migrants for their whole lives.


Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia

Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia

Author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1351588095

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This book explores how ethnic groups living in the Himalayan regions understand nature and culture. The first part addresses the opposition between nature and culture in Asia’s major religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Shamanism. The second part brings together specialists of different representative groups living in the heterogeneous Himalayan region. They examine how these indigenous groups perceive their world. This includes understanding their mythic past, in particular, the place of animals and spirits in the world of humans as they see it and the role of ritual in the everyday lives of these people. The book takes into account how these various perceptions of the Himalayan peoples are shaped by a globalized world. The volume thus provides new ways of viewing the relationship between humans and their environment.


Daughters of the Tharu

Daughters of the Tharu

Author: Mary Ann Maslak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1135952221

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This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal.


Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

Author: Arjun Guneratne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-24

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1135192863

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This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy makers in the fields of environmental conservation and development. The chapters in this book analyse the symbolic schema that shape human-environment relations, whether that of scientists studying the Himalayan environment, public officials crafting policy about it, or people making a living from their engagement with it, and the way that natural phenomena themselves shape human perception of the world. A new approach to the study of the environment in South Asia, this book introduces the new thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya and uses Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment.


Nepal

Nepal

Author: Axel Michaels

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-03

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0197650937

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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.