Art of the Himalayas
Author: Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA millennium of paintings, textiles, metal sculptures, ritual objects; aesthetic, religious contexts.
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Trees and Shrubs of Nepal and the Himalayas
Author: Adrian Storrs
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788173030987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe object of this book is to give pen and picture portraits, or character studies, of some of the more common, important and interesting trees and shrubs to be found in Nepal. Innumerable b&w and colour illustrations, condition good.
Geology of the Nepal Himalaya
Author: Megh Raj Dhital
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 3319024965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the geology of the entire Himalayan range in Nepal, i.e., from the Gangetic plain in the south to the Tethyan zone in the north. Without a comprehensive look at the various Himalayan zones, it is practically impossible to fully grasp the processes at work behind the formation and development of the spectacular Himalaya. However, the goal is not merely to document all the scientific ontology but rather to reveal a sound basis for the prevailing concepts. Both the early literature on Himalayan geology and contemporary trends are fully covered. For the first time, the origin, use, and abuse of common Himalayan geological terms such as the Siwaliks, Lesser Himalaya, Main Boundary Thrust, Main Central Thrust, and Tethys are discussed. The book will help readers to progress from a cognitive approach to a constructive one by linking various types of knowledge, such as seeking relations between various geological structures as well as between earlier thoughts or views and contemporary approaches.
Structural and Thermal Evolution of the Himalayan Thrust Belt in Midwestern Nepal
Author: P.G. DeCelles
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 081372547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Spanning eight kilometers of topographic relief, the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in Nepal has accommodated more than 700 km of Cenozoic convergence between the Indian subcontinent and Asia. Rapid tectonic shortening and erosion in a monsoonal climate have exhumed greenschist to upper amphibolite facies rocks along with unmetamorphosed rocks, including a 5-6-km-thick Cenozoic foreland basin sequence. This Special Paper presents new geochronology, multisystem thermochronology, structural geology, and geological mapping of an approximately 37,000 km2 region in midwestern and western Nepal. This work informs enduring Himalayan debates, including how and where to map the Main Central thrust, the geometry of the seismically active basal Himalayan detachment, processes of tectonic shortening in the context of postcollisional India-Asia convergence, and long-term geodynamics of the orogenic wedge"--Publisher's website
Nepal Himalaya
Author: Shirō Shirahata
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKShaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas
Author: Holly Walters
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9048550149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge.
Development and Public Health in the Himalaya
Author: Ian Harper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1317918894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development. It focuses on mission health care institutions, tuberculosis control programmes as a site of medical intervention, the "pharmaceuticalization" of mental health and public health, and in relation to development ideologies the attempted creation of modern subjects and citizens to advance the health of the nation. Based on two decades of experience, both as a physician and public health professional and an anthropologist, the author presents these issues through four case studies of health programme intervention in a district in central Nepal to show the inter-related aspects of the processes. The book explains how local realities align with, resist, and are complicated by globalized narratives and practices of health and development. It pays careful attention to traditional healers, infectious disease, micronutrient initiatives, mental health and the historical, ideological, and political-economic context of mission-based development work. Offering an ethnographic picture of the challenges and possibilities for action that exist in Nepal , this book is of interest to academics in the field of medical and development anthropology and those working directly in the fields of health and development.
Man and His House in the Himalayas
Author: Gérard Toffin
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789937623551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe building designs and their associate socio-religious representations described in the volume will therefore bear witness to traditional Nepali rural and urban housing. They deserve special attention from local people, architects, researchers and planners.
Man and His House in the Himalayas
Author: Gérard Toffin
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFortress Monasteries of the Himalayas
Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-08-20
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1782001905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spread of Buddism and Tibetan secular power throughout the Himalayas led to a distinctive style of fortifications not found anywhere else. This book looks at Himalayan fortifications, from their creation in the Middle Ages to their destruction and capture by the Chinese in the 20th century.
