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<p>The article attempts to analyze concepts of economics as they apply to a group of people living in east Nepal and to synthesize the substantivist and formalist theories in order to perceive them as being complementary rather than in opposition. The article is based on a case study of the Athpahariya Rais in Nepal. The Athpahariyas are small group of Tibeto-Burman language speaking people living in the Dhankuta district, East Nepal. They practice a shamanistic tradition as their religion. The article discusses the subsistence economy and land tenure of the area along with the cash economy and market exchange. The article concludes that the economy of the Athpahariyas clearly fits Firth's definition of peasant economies. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-01-22)</p>
<p>The article attempts to analyze the reason and impact of Indian migration in the Terai of Nepal. It mainly focuses on a historical approach to understand past economic development and the present socio-economic conditions of the Nepal Terai, with special reference to the Indian migration in the area. The article looks at Indian migration in the Terai during different spans of time: after the unification, during the Rana period, during revolution of 1950, and after 1950. The study reveals that Indians were originally invited to settle down in the Nepal Terai. Later, after 1964, it was felt that the Terai was becoming over populated, and the population flow into the region needed to be curtailed not only from hills of Nepal but also from the Indian nationals whose number in Nepal continued to increase. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-01-27)</p>
<p>The article discusses family transitions and the practice of bride-service in the upper Ankhu Khola of Nepal. This article tries to bridge the gap through a theory-driven analysis of change in family-organized cooperative behaviors among the Tamang of a single village. It focuses on the practice of husbands providing labor services to their wives families after marriage. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-03-02)</p>
<p>The article attempts to analyze the changing role of leadership of a group called Athpahariya Rais of Dhankuta district in eastern Nepal. The discussion is centered on the powers assigned to the leader which allow him to control others in the group. It also attempts to show that though the structure of the larger national political system has changed over time, the traditional form of leadership and authority has remained safely intact and the "new" leaders are the same people who held power in the former traditional systems. The article concludes that the Athpahariya Rais provide a clear example of the role of leadership gradually passing over to the same group of people even in a changing political situation. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-09)</p>
<p>The article attempts to explain why cash crops like big cardamon (Amomun subulatum) have been introduced into marginal land in a village in eastern Nepal. The article discusses population growth, land pressure, and development of cash crops in a Nepali village. It discusses the ethnographic setting of the study area of Illam district, eastern Nepal. It discusses how farmers of Barbote panchayat are adopting a new adaptive strategy rather than sticking to a traditional model of subsistence agriculture. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-02)</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of Dor Bahadur Bista, <em>Fatalism and Development</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of Heiko Schrader, <em>Trading Patterns in the Nepal Himalayas</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of James F. Fisher, <em>Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface</em>.</p>
<p>A review by Dilli R. Dahal of Janaklal Sharma, <em>Hāmro Samāj: Ek Adyayan (Our Society: A Study)</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli Ram Dahal of Krishna Bahadur Bhattachan and Chaitanya Mishra, <em>Development Practices in Nepal</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by D. P. Rajaure and D. R. Dahal of Lionel Caplan, <em>Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations</em> (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970).</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of Mary M. Cameroon, <em>On the Edge of the Auspicious</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli R. Dahal of Michael Vinding, <em>The Thakali: A Himalayan Ethnography</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by D. R. Dahal of A. Patricia Caplan, <em>Priests and Cobblers: Social Change in a Hindu Village in Western Nepal</em> (San Francisco: Chandler, 1972).</p>
<p>This is a review by Dilli Ram Dahal of Pradymna P. Karan, Hiroshi Ishii, and others, <em>Nepal: A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition</em>.</p>
<p>This is a review by D. R. Dahal of Wendy Doniger O' Flaherty, <em>Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva</em>.</p>
<p>The article reviews significant findings from over 15 years of research on the culture of fertility and family transitions in two Tamang communities of Nepal. The data sources include both qualitative ethnography and quantitative survey materials collected from the collaborative Tamang family research project. The major findings indicate that behavioral transitions in family and childbearing patterns are closely associated with changing economic contexts away from earlier subsistence production to increasing involvement in the monetized economy. More recently, research has further indicated the beginnings of transitions in the cultural contexts of family and identity. The authors suggest that the moral entailments of Tamang patterns of meaning are the key to variations in behavior in response to changing material conditions.</p>
<p>A review of B. K. Shrestha, <em>Karnali Lok Samskriti: Diyārgāunkā Thakuriharu</em> (Folk Culture of the Karnali: The Thakuris of Diyargaun).</p>