Professor David Gellner
Books
2005 |
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Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal, 2005, Harvard University Press: Cambridge MA and London.
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2001 |
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The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, 2001, OUP: Delhi.
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1992 |
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Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual, 1992, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
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Edited books
2010 |
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Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, 2010, Sage: Delhi.
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2009 |
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Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia, 2009, Sage: Delhi.
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2008 |
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Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal, 2008, Vajra Books: Kathmandu.
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2007 |
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Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences (2nd edition), 2007, Berghahn.
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Nepalis Inside and Outside Nepal: Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. I, 2007, Manohar: Delhi.
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2003 |
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Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences, 2003, Social Science Press: Delhi.
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2001 |
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Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work, 2001, Berg: Oxford.
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1997 |
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Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal, 1997, Harwood: Amsterdam.
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1995 |
Selected recent articles
2009
‘The Awkward Social Science? Anthropology on Schools, Elections, and Revolution in Nepal’ JASO-online (NS) 1(2): 115-40
‘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.
2008
2008 ‘Democracy and Ethnic Organizations in Nepal’ (with Mrigendra Karki) in D.N. Gellner & K. Hachhethu (eds) Local Democracy in South Asia: The Micropolitics of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours, pp. 105-27. Delhi: Sage.
2007
‘The Sociology of Activism in Nepal: Some Preliminary Considerations’ (with Mrigendra Karki) in Ishii et al. (eds) Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal (Social Dynamics in Northern South Asia Vol. 2), pp. 361-97. Delhi: Manohar.
‘Democracy in Nepal: Four Models’ Seminar 576: 50-6.
(with S. LeVine) ‘All in the Family: Money, Kinship, and Theravada Monasticism in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’ in R.B. Chhetri & L.P. Uprety (eds) Observations on the Changing Societal Mosaic of Nepal (Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 10) , pp. 141-73. Kathmandu: Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tribhuvan University.
‘Caste, Ethnicity and Inequality in Nepal’ Economic and Political Weekly 42(20): 1823-8.
‘Nepal and Bhutan in 2006: A Year of Revolution' Asian Survey 47(1): 80-6
2005
‘The Emergence of Conversion in a Hindu-Buddhist Polytropy: The Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, c. 1600-1995' Comparative Studies in Society and History 47(4): 755-80.
2004
‘Children's Voices from Kathmandu and Lalitpur, Nepal' Journal of Asian and African Studies 68: 1-47.
