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Taking culture seriously: Making the Social survey Ethnographic
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 2008-01)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, this essay takes ...
Mortality and magnitude of the "wild effect" in chimpanzee tooth emergence
(Elsevier, 2010)
Age of tooth emergence is a useful measure of the pace of life for primate species, both living and extinct. A recent study combining wild chimpanzees of the Taï Forest, Gombe, and Bossou by Zihlman et al.
(2004) suggested ...
History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
This chapter explores the micro-politics of marriage practices among a Tamang and Ghale population in north central Nepal. Based on ethnographic and survey research in Timling (Tipling), it establishes that marriage ...
Quantification of dysmorphogenesis: pattern variability index, σz
(American Roentgen Ray Society, 1985)
Family Transitions and the Practice of Brideservice in the Upper Ankhu Khola: A Tamang Case
(Center for nepal & Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 1996-07)
Time, Space, and Image Making: Rock Art from the Dhar Tichitt (Mauritania)
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
Prehistoric images are particularly versatile and difficult to grasp. In a few cases of historical continuity, local cultural glosses provide researchers with a rich corpus of data and help in the interpretation of the ...
Culture and Causality: An Anthropological Comment
(The Population Council, 2003-09)
This comment discusses the role of Anthropology and cultural models for explanation and understanding of demographic processes. It reflects on mixed method approaches in demography with a sympathetic eye to survey methods ...