culture
The history of Le Marche in Central Italy is very well documented, yet there are few if any books which take the little settlements in the Sibillini mountains (located over 700 meters altitude) as their focal point. Instead, historical writing mentions these mountain hamlets marginally, without detail. Furthermore, there is a total lack of any history of these mountain communities in English...
Document prepared by the MF Team for the "Culture and Risk: Understanding the Socio-Cultural Settings that Influence Risk from Natural Hazards" Econference. It contains a reference about gender and climate change vulnerability and culture and risk.
Culture as shared, learned and transmitted body of knowledge, beliefs and practices plays a very important role in our (here by ‘our’ I mean all the stakeholders in a situation of disaster) perception, understanding and activities undertaken to mitigate, manage and face the disaster. In the very idea of culture is enshrined the notion of social group as culture is a product of the society, the...
Cultural and perceptual ideas or investigations have not had the same presence or influence in the hazards and disasters field as, say, geophysical sciences. However, it would be a mistake to imagine their literatures are less extensive or as many equally specialized disciplines. The first part of the bibliography indicates the range of work that has dealt with cultural, socio-cultural, trans-...
The language of the manuscript in question is difficult. One part is written in Sanskrit and the other part in old Newari. Bendall borrowed the manuscript and it was taken to London for research, resulting in the article: 'The History of Nepal and Surrounding Kingdoms'. The author challenges some of the interpretations of the manuscript and looks to correct a few mistakes in the book that was...
This article is a field analysis of data from anthropological research the author has been carrying out in the town of Pokhara, in west central Nepal. He has examined what he has found to be in close relation of these systems with Brahmin-Chhetri economic choice in a situation of change and development. The author concentrates on presenting and analysing Brahman-Chhetri kinship and its main...
Rodighar, an institution found among the Gurungs of Nepal, exists in a similar form among Magars. On one level, the rodighar (ghar N- house, from rot II G ro- friends? or sleeping place, tII - house) can be described as a nightly social gathering place, a semi-permanent dormitory where young girls and boys of the village congregate to sing, talk and joke. In some areas, the rodighar seems to...
<p>Kitini Gaon Panchayat is located in the south eastern fringe of the Kathmandu Valley about eight miles from the headquarters of Lalitpur District Panchayat in Pata. Kitini is connected with Kathmandu by a motorable road. Agriculture is the main occupation, but some people gain their livelihood from other sources such as quarrying.</p>
<p>The article examines the...
"To this day Nepal is a living myth. It is enacted throughout the year in the succession of seasonal rites and festivals. No living art supports them any longer." Stella Kramrisch, a noted authority on Nepalese art ended her book 'Art of Nepal with these words. It is a common assumption, though one the authors of this paper feel to be incorrect. It could be said that Nepal, alone among her...
In a paper presented at the 1972 International Congress of Linguists in Bologna, an attempt was made by Joseph Greenberg to determine the conditions under which anon-classifier language might become a classifier language. In approaching this question, Greenberg was obliged to raise the prior question as to the definition of the linguistic type to which we refer "classifier language." His...
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