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This paper is a preliminary report, a discussion of seasonal migratory trading patterns of the population of Baragaon. The villages concerned are located in the Kagbeni and Muktinath Panchayats in the central part of Mustang District, Nepal.
Baragaon is an area located along a traditional trade-route between Tibet, the middle hills of Nepal and the plains region of the Nepalese...
Research of rote learning and related topics has been extensive, but is usually limited specific to the Nepalese application of the technique. Therefore this article attempts to cite studies yielding information transferable to the Nepalese situation, and restrict the scope of concern to studies of educational psychology, pragmatic philosophy and analytic philosophy.
When a citizen of a...
In the author's tour of east Nepal hills, starting from Solu and proceeding eastwards to Dharan by Okaldhunga, Bhojpur, Chainpur and Hile, the author noted the regular appearance of certain manufactured goods. Batteries, biscuits, cigarettes, cloth etc. could be seen. Copy books, rubber or canvas shoes, kerosene brass lamps, candles, glass tumblers, aluminium vessels, traditional brassware,...
This article is written in the style of 'notes preliminaries' pioneered by French social scientists in Nepal. It is a by-product of a larger research undertaking under the auspices of and with a grant from the Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University.
Information collected on this group of untouchables, the Chirimar, who were encountered incidentally in the course of...
This case study of small farmers made in Naktajhijh village panchayat near the selected FAO project village Sakhwa, is to determine the attitude and reactions of small owner operators, share croppers and landless agricultural labourers towards the rural institutions. It deals mainly with six institutions and their organisational set-up, their mode of operations and interaction with the...
In the analysis of speech or a series of utterances, it is of advantage to begin with the syllable. A syllable however, is an ambiguous term and there is yet no satisfactory definition of the syllable as a unit of speech production and perception. From the articulation point of view, a syllable can be regarded as a movement of the vocal organs or rather the respiratory muscles referred to a a...
The special position of the cow in Hindu religion and society is well known. The symbolic connotations of the cow are varied and complicated. Even so, whatever specific meanings and values pertain within the religious traditions themselves, it is a more general sense of the sacred and inviolable nature of the cow which functions in everyday life. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the...
Ethnobotany is a subject of more than scholarly or historical interest in Nepal. In the five years 1970-75, the export earnings for the sale of Nepalese medicinal plants rose from one and a half to nearly ten million rupees, a trend that held in subsequent years and represents about 3% of the total exports of Nepal. Potential uses of medicinal plants from the higher altitude areas remains...
The major social function of the shaman in Tamang society is the diagnosis and treatment of illness. This paper has two purposes: first the author investigates the indigenous categories of illness and examines the unique relationship that exists between modern medicine and shamanism in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. Then the author turns to the curing practices of the Tamang shaman, comparing...
This paper is a preliminary attempt at describing the competence in the learning of Nepali at the primary school level, comparing the competence of those who speak Nepali as a first language (NL1) with that of those who speak Nepali as a second language (NL2).
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