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Grammar --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Nepal
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Forced labor --- Child labor --- Nepal.
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Bergexpeditie --- Mount Everest --- Nepal --- Himalaya
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Buddhism --- Newar (Nepalese people) --- Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)
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Pharmacology. Therapy --- Infectious diseases. Communicable diseases --- Nepal
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Forced labor --- Child labor --- Child labor. --- Forced labor. --- Nepal.
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Human ecology - Nepal --- Human geography - Nepal --- Human ecology - India - Ladākh --- Human geography - India - Ladākh --- Human ecology --- Human geography --- Écologie humaine --- Géographie humaine
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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.
Hunting and gathering societies --- Raute (Nepalese people) --- Human ecology --- Ethnobiology. --- Social life and customs. --- Nepal
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Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990's, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how the Yamphu Rai acquired, farmed, and held onto their land; how they perceived their area's recent designation as a national park and conservation area; and whether as she believed they held a wisdom about living on the earth that the industrialized West had forgotten. What Armbrecht found instead were men and women who shared her restlessness, people also driven by the feeling that there must be more to life than they could find in their village. "We each blamed our dissatisfaction on something in the world," she writes, "not something in ourselves or in the stories we told ourselves about that world. If only we lived elsewhere, then we would be at home." Charting Armbrecht's travels in the mountains of Nepal and in the United States and her disintegrating marriage back home, Thin Places is ultimately an exploration not of the sacred far-off but of the sacredness of places that are between the internal and external landscape, the self and others, and the self and the land. She finds that home is not a place where we arrive but a way of being in place, wherever that place may be. Along the way, Armbrecht explores the disconnections in our most intimate relationships, how they stem from the same disconnections that create our destruction of the land, and how one cannot be healed without attending to the other.
Yamphu (Nepalese people) --- Women anthropologists --- Social life and customs. --- Armbrecht, Ann, --- Hedanga (Nepal)
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Dutch literature --- Nepal --- Straatkinderen --- Magie --- JAL (Jeugd- en adolescentenliteratuur) --- Jeugdboeken 13-16 jaar --- Straatkind --- Jeugdliteratuur --- Young adultliteratuur --- Vlaanderen --- Vlaams --- Emigratie
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