Books

• Reciting the Goddess by Birkenholtz

  Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz’s recently published book Reciting the Goddess:Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal  presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha(SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The exten...

• Planning Families in Nepal: Global and Local Projects of Reproduction by Jan Brunson

  Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning. Promoting a two-child norm, global family planning prog...

• Himalayan Mobilities: An Exploration of the Impacts of Expanding Rural Road networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya, by Robert E. Beazley and James P. Lassoie

  “The goals of this book are to update information on the effects of rural road development, both in Nepal and globally, explain the environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural impacts of expanding rural road networks in the Nepalese Himalaya, and to promote fu...

• Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal, by Anna Stirr

  “An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The ...

• Rituals of Ethnicity Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India by Sara Shneiderman

  “Rituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomo...

• Discourse of Awareness by Tatsuro Fujikura

  Dr. Fujikura’s new book, reviewed in Himalaya 34(1), takes both a critical and constructive view of development in Nepal, focusing particularly on international programs for community development in relation to the Maoist movement. For Jagannath Adhikari’s r...

• Mediating the Global by Heather Hindman

  Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye. But the very lives of these global middlemen and women are relatively unstudied. M...

• Himalayan Passages: Tibetan and Newar Studies in Honor of Hubert Decleer

  Edited by Benjamin Bogin and Andrew Quintman Wisdom Publications (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism), 384 pages, color ill. Over decades, Hubert Decleer has introduced hundreds of American undergraduates to Tibetan culture in India, Nepal, and China. Here, as a tri...