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Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences.
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ISSN: 26761327 Year: 2018 Publisher: Jumla, Nepal : Karnali Academy of Health Sciences,

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Medicine. --- Nepal.


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Studies in historical documents from Nepal and India
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),

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Deals mainly with South Asian documents from the premodern period. Covers topics such as the diplomatics of document writing, legal practices, administration, state-making, and religious life. Many of the articles in the present volume deal with specifc source materials preserved in the National Archives of Nepal.

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Nepal --- History.


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Journal of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences.
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Year: 2018 Publisher: [Dharan, Nepal] : BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences,

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The partial revolution : labor, social movements and the invisible hand of Mao in western Nepal
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Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn,

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Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which revolutionary political mobilization changes social relations—often unexpectedly clashing with the movement’s ideological goals. Focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor, Hoffmann explores the connection between politics, labor, and Mao’s legacy, documenting the impact of changing political contexts on labor relations among former debt-bonded laborers.


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The prevention of torture : an ecological approach
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ISBN: 1108556582 1108669050 1108470459 1108633897 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a 'stance of criticism' to take up the positive project of reimagining human rights theory and practice. It discusses key debates in human rights and political theory, as well as the challenges that advocates face in translating situational analyses into real world interventions. Danielle Celermajer develops a new, ecological framework for mapping the worlds that produce torture, and thereby develops prevention strategies.


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Being and hearing : making intelligible worlds in deaf kathmandu
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ISBN: 1912808536 0999157035 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Hau Books,

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"How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on three years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Graif argues that Nepali deaf communities—in their social sensibilities, political projects, and aesthetics of expression—present innovative answers to the very old question of what it means to be different.From pranks and protests, to diverse acts of love and resistance, to renewed distinctions between material and immaterial, deaf communities in Nepal have crafted ways to foreground the habits of perception that shape both their own experiences and how they are experienced by the hearing people around them.


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The Heart of Helambu : Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal
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ISBN: 1487510810 1487510802 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"In his autoethnographic memoir, O'Neill reflects on the complex relationships he developed with his research participants: the carpet weavers, their families, and others in the communities which he studied. A compelling account of ethnographic fieldwork's personal dimension and the ethical and emotional challenges that come with maintaining relationships across substantial social distances, The Heart of Helambu illustrates an important aspect of anthropological research through O'Neill's engaging story."-- "Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O'Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times."--


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Rehearsing for life : theatre for social change in Nepal
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ISBN: 1108235859 1108641032 110841611X Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This work examines the production and performance of theatrical activities aimed at bringing about social change in both development and political intervention in Nepal. If everyday social problems can be both represented and challenged through drama-based performances, then what differentiates street theatre performed in planned developments from street theatre performed within social and political movements? This multi-sited ethnography attempts to answer this question by following the works of Aarohan Theatre - a Kathmandu-based professional company, performing both loktantrik natak (theatre for democracy) in the context of the 2005-06 popular movement, and kachahari natak (forum theatre) for development projects. The analysis then extends to the forum theatre produced by one of Aarohan's partner groups, the Kamlari Natak Samuha - a Tharu grassroots activist organization based in Deukhuri Valley (West Nepal) campaigning against indentured child labour.

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Theater and society --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Political aspects --- Social status --- Social aspects --- Nepal --- Politics and government --- Nīpāl --- Ni-po-erh --- Nepāḥ --- Nepal Adhirajya --- Kingdom of Nepal --- Nepāla --- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal --- Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl --- Непал --- Savezna Demokratska Republika Nepal --- República Federal Democràtica del Nepal --- Kongeriget Nepal --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal --- Νεπάλ --- Nepalo --- Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo --- República Federal Democrática de Nepal --- Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik --- Nepalgo Errepublika Demokratiko Federala --- Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta --- République démocratique fédérale du Népal --- נפאל --- Sambandslýðveldið Nepal --- ネパール --- Nepāru --- 네팔 --- Nepalia --- Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal --- Nepālas Federālā Demokrātiskā Republika --- Федеративная Демократическая Республика Непал --- Federativnai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Nepal --- Савезна Демократска Република Непал --- Республіка Непал --- Respublika Nepal --- Федеративна Демократична Республіка Непал --- Federatyvna Demokratychna Respublika Nepal --- Cộng hòa dân chủ liên bang Nepal --- 尼泊尔 --- Nibo'er


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Science in an extreme environment
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ISBN: 0822982986 9780822982982 0822945118 9780822945116 Year: 2018 Publisher: [Pittsburgh, Pa.]

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On February 20, 1963, a team of nineteen Americans embarked on the first expedition that would combine high-altitude climbing with scientific research. The primary objective of the six scientists on the team--who procured funding by appealing to the military and political applications of their work--was to study how severe stress at high altitudes affected human behavior. The expedition would land the first American on the summit of Mount Everest nearly three years after a successful (though widely disputed) Chinese ascent. At the height of the Cold War, this struggle for the Himalaya turned Everest into both a contested political space and a remote, unpredictable laboratory. The US expedition promised to resurrect American heroism, embodied in a show of physical strength and skill that, when combined with scientific expertise, would dominate international rivals on the frontiers of territorial exploration. It propelled mountaineers, scientists, and their test subjects 29,029 feet above sea level, the highest point of Chinese-occupied Tibet. There they faced hostile conditions that challenged and ultimately compromised standard research protocols, yielding results that were too exceptional to be generalized to other environments. With this book, Philip W. Clements offers a nuanced exploration of the impact of extremity on the production of scientific knowledge and the role of masculinity and nationalism in scientific inquiry.


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The Barley Genome
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ISBN: 331992527X 3319925288 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book presents an overview of the state-of-the-art in barley genome analysis, covering all aspects of sequencing the genome and translating this important information into new knowledge in basic and applied crop plant biology and new tools for research and crop improvement. Unlimited access to a high-quality reference sequence is removing one of the major constraints in basic and applied research. This book summarizes the advanced knowledge of the composition of the barley genome, its genes and the much larger non-coding part of the genome, and how this information facilitates studying the specific characteristics of barley. One of the oldest domesticated crops, barley is the small grain cereal species that is best adapted to the highest altitudes and latitudes, and it exhibits the greatest tolerance to most abiotic stresses. With comprehensive access to the genome sequence, barley’s importance as a genetic model in comparative studies on crop species like wheat, rye, oats and even rice is likely to increase. .

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