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Himalayan Households, Tamang Demography and Domestic Process
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2010 Thomes E. Fricke 1981, Himalayan Households, Tamang Demography and Domestic Process, Book Faith India, 1993 ( pp 227) Price 300 Rs DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v3i0.2789 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.3 2009 201 ...
Prakash Prasad Sapkota
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The Historical Development of Himalayan Anthropology
Mountain Research and Development, 1985 J. Fisher
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La demarcazione religiosa del territorio nel Bhutan
EtnoAntropologia, 2015 This paper deals with the symbolic organization of space in the traditional Bhutanese society on the background of the Buddhist religion. The author argues that there are different semantic networks whose ‘knots’ are monasteries, temples, stupa (mound ...
Pietro Scarduelli
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HIMALAYA, 2023 The Nagaland government’s July 2020 announcement of a ban on the sale of dog-meat stimulated a flood of articles on various aspects of the debate. The war of words pitted animal rights activists against the defenders of cultural rights.
Aditya K. Kakati
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Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India
Cultural Anthropology, 2021 This essay asks how conceptualizing love as work might provide a fresh perspective on love’s politics. In offering an ethnographic account of how love for Gau-Mata, the Cow-Mother of the idealized Hindu nation, fuels a right-wing Hindu nationalist ...
Radhika Govindrajan
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Development and Environment: An Assessment of Population Growth vis-a-vis Soil Erosion in Nepal
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2014 This paper discusses the environmental myths and narratives prevailing in Nepal in reference to the population growth and soil erosion. Soil erosion is taken as primary element of environmental degradation by the theory of the Himalayan Environmental ...
Rishikesh Pandey
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Sleep, Melatonin, and the Menopausal Transition: What Are the Links? [PDF]
Sleep ScienceThe pineal hormone Melatonin plays an important role in the regulation of the circadian sleep/wake cycle, mood, and perhaps immune functions, carcinogensis and reproduction.
Shazia Jehan +9 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2023 Between the late 1970s and 1990s, many indigenous Lisu people in the Nu River Valley, an Eastern Himalayan region of China bordering Myanmar and Tibet, underwent what they referred to as "doing medicine"-abortions, vasectomies, and tubal ligations-as ...
Ting Hui Lau
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Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism, 2023 Introduction. The article aims to analyse the current state of knowledge about mountaineering in the Himalayas through a systematic literature review. Material and Methods.
Marek Nowacki
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Demographic Fluctuation among Himalayan Populations
Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology, 2017 Background: Himalayas constitute vast mountain range in Asia spreading over 2500 Km (from east to west) at a high altitude along the northern fringes of the Indian subcontinent. The population dynamics in Himalayan domain has been immensely influenced by
Vijit Deepani, M. Saini
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