Professor David Gellner
Articles and book chapters
2011 |
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‘Comment on 'Identity' by Lauren Leve’, Cultural Anthropology
52
(4), 2011, pp. 526-527.
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‘Not If But How: Ethnicity will have a role in the constitution, the question is just what that role will be’, The Kathmandu Post
(2 May), 2011.
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‘Preconditions of Democracy: An Outsider's Reflections and Their Reception in Nepal’, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
38
, 2011, pp. 35-60.
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‘Belonging, Indigeneity, Rites, and Rights: The Newar Case’, In J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and G. Toffin (eds)
The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas, Delhi: Sage, 2011, pp. 45-76.
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2010 |
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‘Why are the British so Peculiar? Reflections on Sport, Nationalism, and Hierarchy’, JASO-online (NS)
2
(1-2), 2010, pp. 31-43.
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‘Geography as History is also now History: Some Comments on Anthropology’s Role’, In R. Acosta, S. Rizvi, and A. Santos (eds)
Making Sense of the Global: Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 195-205.
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‘In Memoriam, Asha Kaji Pandit’, In Pandit Vaidya Asha Kaji, N.B. Bajracharya (tr.), M. Allen (ed.)
The Dasakarma Vidhi: Fundamental Knowledge on Traditional Customs of Ten Rites of Passage Amongst the Buddhist Newars, Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 2010, pp. 17-20.
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‘Initiation as a Site of Cultural Conflict among the Newars’, In A. Zotter and C. Zotter (eds)
Hindu and Buddhist Initiations in India and Nepal, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 167-181.
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‘Introduction: Making Civil Society in South Asia’, In D. N. Gellner (ed.)
Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, Delhi: Sage, 2010, pp. 1-14.
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‘Nepal: Trajectories of Democracy and Restructuring of the State’, In P. Brass (ed.)
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics, Routledge, 2010, pp. 131-46.
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‘Surveying Activists in Nepal’, In D. N. Gellner (ed.)
Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, Delhi: Sage, 2010, pp. 106-158.
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2009 |
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‘The Awkward Social Science? Anthropology on Schools, Elections, and Revolution in Nepal’, JASO-online (NS)
1
(2), 2009, pp. 115-40.
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‘Introduction: How Civil are "Communal" and Ethno-nationalist Movements?’, In David N. Gellner (ed.)
Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia, Sage: Delhi, 2009, pp. 1-24.
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‘Le poids de la famille: Argent, parenté et monachisme theravâda au Népal [translation of 'All in the Family' 2007]’, In A. Herrou and G. Krauskopff (eds)
La vie monastique dans le miroir de la parenté, Paris: Harmattan, 2009, pp. 211-34.
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‘Introduction: Social Science, Anthropology, and the Constituent Assembly Elections: Some Comments’, In D. Holmberg, J. Pettigrew, and M.S. Tamang (eds)
Views from the Field: Anthropological Perspectives on the Constituent Assembly Elections, Social Science Baha: Lalitpur, 2009, pp. 1–7.
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‘The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice Theory’, In Peter Clarke (ed.)
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 48-62.
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2008 |
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‘Dharma Ratna Trisuli: A Tribute’, In A. Dhakhwa, M. Shakya, S. Suren and S. Shakya (eds)
Dharmaratna Shakya Trishuli Smrtigrantha (Dharma Ratna Shakya 'Trisuli'): A Commemorative Volume, Lalitpur: D.R. Shakya Trisuli Memorial Cttee, 2008, pp. 347-349.
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‘Introduction’, In D.N. Gellner & K. Hachhethu (eds)
Local Democracy in Nepal and South Asia, Sage: Delhi, 2008, pp. 13 - 22.
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‘New Nepal, New Ethnicities: Changes Since the Mid 1990s (preface)’, In David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds)
Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal, Vajra Books: Kathmandu, 2008, pp. i - xxxii.
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‘Democracy and Ethnic Organizations in Nepal’, In D.N. Gellner and K. Hachhethu (eds)
Local Democracy in South Asia: The Micropolitics of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours, Sage: Delhi, 2008, pp. 105-27.
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2007 |
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‘Vajrayana Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’, Lumbini
10
(May), 2007, pp. 7–8.
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‘Vying for Position: Nepal’s Former Rebels Struggle to Enter the Fold’, Jane’s Intelligence Review
19
(5), 2007, pp. 32-5.
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‘Two Indigenous Newar Intellectuals’, Guthi Nepal Sambat 1128 (Pasa Pucha Guthi UK)
11–12
, 2007, pp. 23.
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‘Democracy in Nepal: Four Models’, Seminar
576
, 2007, pp. 50-6.
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‘Caste, Ethnicity and Inequality in Nepal’, Economic and Political Weekly
42
(20), 2007, pp. 1823-8.
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‘All in the Family: Money, Kinship, and Theravada Monasticism in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’, Observations on the Changing Societal Mosaic of Nepal (Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology)
10
, 2007, pp. 141-73.
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‘Nepal and Bhutan in 2006: A Year of Revolution’, Asian Survey
47
(1), 2007, pp. 80-6.
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‘Introduction’, In H. Ishii, D. N. Gellner and K. Nawa (eds)
Nepalis Inside and Outside Nepal (Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 1), Manohar: Delhi, 2007, pp. 1–14.
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‘The Sociology of Activism in Nepal: Some Preliminary Considerations’, In Hiroshi Ishii, David N. Gellner and Katsuo Nawa (eds)
Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal (Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2), Manohar: Delhi, 2007, pp. 361-97.
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2006 |
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‘Sri Lankan Normal’, Oxford Magazine
255
(October), 2006, pp. 20-1.
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‘Jagat Sundar Bwone-Kuthi, a Nepal-Bhasha school in Kathmandu’, Guthi Nepal Sambat 1127 (Pasa Pucha Guthi UK)
5
, 2006, pp. 16-17.
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‘Theravada Revivalism in Nepal: Reflections on the Early Years’, Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal
, 2006, pp. 195-213.
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2005 |
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‘Clouded Judgement [original title: ‘Who Killed Democracy in Nepal?’]’, Oxford Forum
2
, 2005, pp. 36-7.
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‘Newars as Janajatis’, Guthi Nepal Sambat 1126 (Pasa Puchah Guthi UK)
4
, 2005, pp. 12–13.
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‘Ethnic Rights and Politics in Nepal’, Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
2
, 2005, pp. 1–17.
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‘The Emergence of Conversion in a Hindu-Buddhist Polytropy: The Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, c. 1600-1995’, Comparative Studies in Society and History
47
(4), 2005, pp. 755-80.
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2004 |
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‘Three Buddhist Hymns from Nepal’, Guthi Nepal Sambat
1125
, 2004, pp. 12–13, 16.
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‘Nepalma Prajatantraka Purvadhara: Suraksa, Sammilan ra Samishran’, Samaveshi Loktantraka Adharharu [The Conditions of Inclusive Democracy]
, 2004, pp. 1–7.
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‘Massacre books’, Nepali Times
200
(11-17 June), 2004.
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‘Modernism vs Ambivalence? Some Comments on the Question of Linguistic Policies in Nepal’, Studies in Nepali History and Society
9
(2), 2004, pp. 407-10.
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‘Himalayan Conundrum? A Puzzling Absence in Ronald M. Davidson’s Indian Esoteric Buddhism’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
27
(2), 2004, pp. 411-17.
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‘Theravada Revivalism in Nepal’, ICLAA Newsletter (March)
110
, 2004, pp. 59-62.
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‘‘A Few Words on Kesar Lall’, Kesar Lall: A Homage on the Occasion of his Buraa Janko
, 2004, pp. 35.
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‘Letter taking issue with W. Hechler's review of Guneratne's Many Tongues, One People’, Journal of Asian Studies
63
(2), 2004, pp. 465-6.
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‘Children's Voices from Kathmandu and Lalitpur, Nepal’, Journal of Asian and African Studies
68
, 2004, pp. 1–47.
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‘Buddhism, Women, and Caste: The Case of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’, In K.L. Tsomo
Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, Challenges, and Achievements, SUNY Press: New York, 2004, pp. 155-63.
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‘Foreword’, In Prayag Raj Sharma
The State and Society in Nepal: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Trends, Himal Books: Lalitpur, 2004, pp. vii-ix.
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2003 |
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‘From Cultural Hierarchies to a Hierarchy of Multiculturalisms: The Case of the Newars of Nepal’, Ethnic Revival and Religious Turmoil in the Himalayas
, 2003, pp. 73-131.
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‘Introduction: Transformations of the Nepalese State’, In David N. Gellner
Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences, Social Science Press: Delhi, 2003, pp. 1–30.
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2002 |
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‘Entry on Nepal’, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encylopedia of Beliefs and Practices
3
, 2002, pp. 925-7.
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‘One Year on from the Royal Massacre’, Oxford Magazine
205
, 2002, pp. 3–6.
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‘Theravada Revivalism in Nepal: Some Reflections on the Interpretation of the Early Years'’, Studies in Nepali Society and History
7
(2), 2002, pp. 215-37.
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2001 |
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‘Studying Secularism, Practising Secularism: Anthropological Imperatives’, Social Anthropology
9
, 2001, pp. 337-40.
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‘Some Notes on Newar Identity’, Guthi (Pasa Puchah Guthi UK )
1
, 2001, pp. 8, 10.
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‘How Should One Study Ethnicity and Nationalism?’, Contributions to Nepalese Studies
28
(1), 2001, pp. 1–10.
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‘‘Comments on Adhikari and Mathe': commentary on ‘The Global Media, the Probe Commission, and the Assassination of Nepal's Royal Family: Questions Unasked and Unanswered'’, Himalayan Research Bulletin
21
(1), 2001, pp. 55.
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‘Buddhism’, International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
vol. on religion
, 2001.
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‘*Lay Perspectives on Health and Misfortune in the Kathmandu Valley’, The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes
, 2001, pp. 235-48.
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‘From Group Rights to Individual Rights and Back: Nepalese Struggles with Culture and Equality’, In J. Cowan, M. Dembour, and R. Wilson (eds)
Culture and the Anthropology of Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 177-200.
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‘Introduction: Ethnography of Organizations and Organizations of Ethnography’, In David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch (eds)
Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work, Oxford: Berg, 2001, pp. 1–15.
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2000 |
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‘Introductory comments for ‘Roundtable: The Politics of Culture and Identity in Contemporary Nepal [12/3/99, Boston AAS]'’, Himalayan Research Bulletin
20
(1–2), 2000, pp. 5–6.
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1999 |
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‘From Cultural Hierarchies to a Hierarchy of Multiculturalisms: The Case of the Newars of Nepal’, Multiculturalism: Modes of Coexistence in South and Southeast Asia
, 1999, pp. 103-63.
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‘Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion’, Approaches to the Study of Religion
, 1999, pp. 10–41.
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‘Religion, Politik und Ritual: Betrachtungen zu Geertz und Bloch’, Rituale Heute: Theorien, Kontroversen, Entwürfe
, 1999, pp. 49-72.
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‘Comment on M. Sökefeld ‘Self, Identity, and Culture'’, Current Anthropology
40
(4), 1999, pp. 435-6.
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‘*Religion, Politics, and Ritual: Remarks on Geertz and Bloch’, Social Anthropology
7
(2), 1999, pp. 135-53.
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1998 |
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‘Living with Newar Buddhists: Some Personal Reflections’, Lumbini: Journal of the Lumbini Nepalese Buddha Dharma Society (UK)
1
(1), 1998, pp. 8-10.
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‘Religion, Ritual und Politik’, UniMagazin (the magazine of the University of Zurich)
90
(1), 1998, pp. 50–2.
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‘Preface’, Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg Dilemma
, 1998, pp. vii-xii.
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‘Models of Ethnic Accommodation in South and South-East Asia (conference report)’, Culture and Identity Newsletter
2
(1), 1998, pp. 1, 4.
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1997 |
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‘Caste, Communalism, and Communism: Newars and the Nepalese State’, Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom
, 1997, pp. 151-84.
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‘Introduction: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the World's only Hindu State’, Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom
, 1997, pp. 3–31.
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‘Buddhism and Change among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’, Ethnic Studies Report
15
(1), 1997, pp. 45-60.
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‘Does Symbolism "construct an urban mesocosm"? Robert Levy's Mesocosm and the question of value consensus in Bhaktapur’, Journal of Hindu Studies
1
(3), 1997, pp. 541-64.
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‘*For Syncretism: The Position of Buddhism in Nepal and Japan Compared’, Social Anthropology
5
(3), 1997, pp. 275-89.
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‘Preface’, Nationalism
, 1997, pp. vii-x.
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‘The Consecration of a Vajra-Master in Newar Buddhism’, In S. Karmay and P. Sagant (eds)
Les Habitants du Toit du Monde: Hommage à Alexander W. Macdonald, Nanterre: Société d'Ethnologie, 1997, pp. 659-75.
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‘Foreward’, In N. Gutschow (ed.)
The Nepalese Caitya: 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley, Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges, 1997, pp. 11–14.
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1996 |
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‘Comments on Phanindra Ratna Vajracharya’, Guthis in Newar Buddhism: Conference Report [in Newari]
, 1996, pp. 35-7.
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‘*Temples for Life and Temples for Death: Remarks on the organization of Buddhism in a Tokyo locality’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
27
(3), 1996, pp. 253-65.
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‘Buddhism’, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
, 1996, pp. 80-1.
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‘From Literature to Linguistics to Culture: An Interview with K.P. Malla’, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
11
, 1996, pp. 37-52.
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‘An Interview with Padma Ratna Tuladhar’, Himalayan Research Bulletin
16
, 1996, pp. 37-46.
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‘The Perfection of Wisdom: a text and its uses in Kwa Baha, Lalitpur’, Change and Continuity: Studies in the Nepalese Culture of the Kathmandu Valley
10
, 1996, pp. 32-49.
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‘A Sketch of the History of Lalitpur with special reference to Buddhism’, Contributions to Nepalese Studies (memorial issue for D.V. Vajracharya)
23
(1), 1996, pp. 125-57.
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1995 |
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‘Low Castes in Lalitpur’, Contested Hierarchies
, 1995, pp. 264-97.
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‘Sakyas and Vajracaryas: From Holy Order to Quasi-Ethnic Group’, Contested Hierarchies
, 1995, pp. 209-39.
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‘Urban Peasants: Maharjans in Kathmandu and Lalitpur’, Contested Hierarchies
, 1995, pp. 158-85.
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‘Introduction’, Contested Hierarchies
, 1995, pp. 1–37.
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‘Prime Minister Adhikari in London’, Himalayan Research Bulletin
15
(1), 1995, pp. 46.
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‘Heights of the Heavens: Buddhism in Mongolia and Tibet' (exhibition review)’, Himalayan Research Bulletin
15
(1), 1995, pp. 46.
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‘Structure and Consensus among "Untouchables" in South Asia, letter’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
1
(2), 1995, pp. 395.
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‘Max Weber, Capitalism, and the Religion of India' [revised and expanded version]’, Religion and the Transformation of Capitalism
, 1995, pp. 21-46.
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1994 |
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‘Priests, Healers, Mediums, and Witches: The Context of Possession in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’, Man (N.S.)
239
, 1994, pp. 27-48.
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‘Buddhism’, Nepal: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley
, 1994, pp. 40–7.
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‘Lalitpur’, Nepal: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley
, 1994, pp. 138-69.
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1993 |
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‘*From Sacred Centres to Communist Strongholds? On the Cities of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’, Urban Anthropology and the Supranational and Regional Networks of the Town ( Prague Occasional Papers in Ethnology 2)
, 1993, pp. 216-37.
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‘*Portrait of a Tantric Healer: A Preliminary Report into Curing Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley’, Nepal: Past and Present
, 1993, pp. 135-47.
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1992 |
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‘Report on the conference ‘The Anthropology of Nepal: Peoples, Problems and Processes'’, BASAS Bulletin
19
, 1992, pp. 14–15.
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1991 |
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‘Pollution and Politics in Kathmandu’, Oxford Magazine
71
, 1991, pp. 10–11.
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‘Monk, Householder, and Priest: What the Three Yanas mean to Newar Buddhists’, The Buddhist Forum II
, 1991, pp. 115-32.
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‘‘Ritualized Devotion, Altruism, and Meditation: The offering of the guru mandala in Newar Buddhism’, Indo-Iranian Journal
34
, 1991, pp. 161-97.
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‘A Newar Buddhist Liturgy: Sravakayanist ritual in Kwa Bahah, Lalitpur, Nepal’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
14
(2), 1991, pp. 236-52.
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‘*Max Weber, Capitalism and the Religion of India’, Max Weber (2): Critical Assessments
, 1991.
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‘*Hinduism, Tribalism, and the Position of Women: The Problem of Newar identity’, Man (N.S.)
26
(1), 1991, pp. 105-25.
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1990 |
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‘Introduction: What is the anthropology of Buddhism about?’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
21
(2), 1990, pp. 95-112.
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‘assisted in compilation’, Nepal (World Bibliographies Series
38
, 1990.
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1989 |
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‘Hodgson's Blind Alley? On the so-called schools of Nepalese Buddhism’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
12
(1), 1989, pp. 7–19.
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‘Buddhist Monks or Kinsmen of the Buddha? Reflections on the titles traditionally used by Sakyas in the Kathmandu Valley’, Kailash
15
(1–2), 1989, pp. 5–20.
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‘Monkhood and Priesthood in Newar Buddhism’, Prêtrise, Pouvoirs et Autorité en Himalaya
Purusârtha 12
, 1989, pp. 165-192.
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1988 |
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‘*Priesthood and Possession: Newar religion in the light of some Weberian concepts’, Pacific Viewpoint
29
(2), 1988, pp. 119-43.
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‘Hinduism and Buddhism in the Nepal Valley’, The World's Religions
, 1988, pp. 739-55.
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‘Monastic Initiation in Newar Buddhism’, Indian Ritual and its Exegesis
2
(part 1), 1988, pp. 42-112.
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1987 |
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‘*The Newar Buddhist Monastery: An anthropological and historical typology’, Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley (Nepalica 4)
365-415
, 1987.
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1986 |
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‘Language, Caste, Religion and Territory: Newar identity ancient and modern’, European Journal of Sociology
27
, 1986, pp. 102-48.
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‘Mr. David Gellner's speech, text of a speech given in 1984 to the Young Men's Buddhist Association, Kathmandu (in Newari)’, Nhasala
16
, 1986, pp. 15-30.
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1984 |
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‘On the famous Prajna Paramita in Lalitpur's Hiranyavarna Mahavihara (in Newari)’, Nhasala
14
, 1984, pp. 37-42.
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‘Cities and Mandalas’, Contributions to Nepalese Studies
12
(2), 1984, pp. 115-26.
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1983 |
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‘Is Newar Buddhism corrupt?’, Prajna Darshan 1, yearly Buddha Jayanti magazine
, 1983, pp. 53-7.
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1982 |
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‘*Max Weber, Capitalism and the Religion of India’, Sociology
16
(4), 1982, pp. 526-43.
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1980 |
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‘The Challenge of Populism: Can the centre hold?’
, 1980, pp. 27pp.
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1978 |
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‘Gurkha swords into ploughshares’, New Society
, 1978, pp. 346-8.
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‘Against Marxism's Moral Imperative or Whatever Happened to Reformism?’, Jangle
2
, 1978.
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1977 |
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‘Purity on Principle: Dumont on Caste’, Wu (OSAC magazine)
2
, 1977, pp. 3–4.
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Translations from the French
2004 |
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M. Lecomte-Tilouine Regicide and Maoist revolutionary warfare in Nepal: Modern Incarnations of a Warrior Kingdom, 2004.
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2003 |
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A. de Sales ‘The Kham Magar Country: Between Ethnic Claims and Maoism', 2003, Social Science Press.
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1996 |
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G. Toffin 'The Social Organization of Rajopadhyaya Brahmans', 1996.
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Publications
(an asterisk indicates that the article is included in The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes)