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Revisiting the frontier: colonial legacies and lived realities of Himalayan border-worlds

Territory, Politics, Governance
This special issue takes the Himalayas as a crucial site for studying the evolution of territory, politics and governance. It focuses on the legacies of colonial practices of frontier-making in Himalayan borderland polities.
Arjun Sharma, Galen Murton
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Loose sediments: history, geology, and sand mining in Nepal's Himalayan‐Tarai rivers

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Loose sediments structure the deep history of the youngest Himalayas, Churia, in Nepal. In the 1950s geological surveys of Nepal, the sediments of Churia featured as geologically loose, erodible, and fluviatile with scarce economic possibilities. By 1970,
Saumya Pandey
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The Biography of a God

, 2023
Mahasu is the joint name of four gods whose influence is widespread throughout the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Like other deities in the Western Himalayas, they are regarded as royal gods who rule over territories and people.
Asaf Sharabi
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Environmental Degradation and the Issues of Survival: A Study on a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group of Eastern Himalayan Region, India

Anthropology and ethnology open access journal
In the context of civilization advanced communities are enjoying a higher living of standard by using of more sophisticated technology, health facilities, well educational infrastructure settled economy, proper communication and also with other amenities.
Somenath B*, Goswamy N, Banerjee S
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Climate Changes and its Effect on Yartsagunbu Collectors in the Himalayan Region of North-Western Nepal

Tri-Chandra Journal of Anthropology
This paper explores the effects of climate change on the distribution of Yartsagunbu based on local people’s experiences. Yartsagunbu (Ophiocordyceps Sinensis) is a high-valued fungus that is understood as a stamina enhancer and endoparasitic complex of ...
Jag Bahadur Budha
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Studies of Modern Tibet in Japan: Anthropology, Social History, and Political Science

Cahiers d Extrême-Asie
This article attempts to give a concise overview of modern Tibetan studies in Japan and discusses the achievements of these studies in the fields of anthropology, social history, and political science.
Kensaku Ōkawa
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Vital Bodies

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
With technological developments, distant Himalayan ice has largely replaced early scientific accounts that emerged from physical engagement. Ice became an abstraction that in contemporary accounts is commonly enmeshed in a climate change imaginary and ...
Karine Gagné
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Report on the 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium

Linguistics of the TIbeto-Burman Area, 2008
The 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium was hosted by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden from August 21-23, 2008. The topics discussed were contact-induced language change, historical-comparative studies, typology, language planning, sociolinguistics ...
C. M. Willis
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(In)tangible Journeying and Its Transformation among the Rang from Byans, Far Western Nepal

Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
The main inhabitants of Byans have traditionally undertaken seasonal migrations between their home villages and their winter residences in the southern hills of the Himalayas. Some have also been trans-Himalayan traders.
Katsuo Nawa
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Observations on the decadal variability of aerosol in eastern Himalayan foothills: Evidence of an anthropologically induced positive shift

Atmospheric Environment, 2023
Tamanna Subba   +6 more
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