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| Books: |
| in press |
A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and their Culture. 900 pp., 2 volumes. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 5/6. Leiden: Brill. [estimated publication date: summer 2008]. ISBN 90 04 15526 0 & 978 9004155 26 8. |
| 2007 |
Linguistic Diversity and the Preservation of Endangered Languages: A Case Study from Nepal. 42 pages, may colour plates. Talking Points, 4/07, ISBN 978 92 9115 055 7 (printed) & ISBN 978 92 9115 074 8 (electronic).
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to download the PDF [2.1 MB]
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to view the cover (JPEG)
- click here to read a Nepali-language review of the book published in Shiksak monthly [184 kb]
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| 2004 |
Nepali - Thami - English Dictionary,
by Mark Turin with Bir Bahadur Thami. Kathmandu: Martin
Chautari. ISBN 99933-812-4-1. 115 pages.
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to download the PDF [1 MB]
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to search an online version of the dictionary in Unicode
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to view the cover (JPEG)
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| Edited Books: |
| 2004 |
Kesar
Lall: A Homage on the Occasion of his Buraa Janko, on
Monday, February 2, 2004, edited by Corneille Jest, Tej Ratna Kansakar
and Mark Turin. Kathmandu: Marina Paper. ISBN 99933-890-7-2. 104 pages. |
| 2003b |
Themes
in Himalayan Languages and Linguistics, edited by Tej
Ratna Kansakar and Mark Turin. Kathmandu: South Asia Institute (SAI)
Heidelberg and Tribhuvan University. ISBN 99933-54-16-3. 293 + x pages. Read a review of the book. |
| 2003a |
The
Gauri Shankar Trekking Area (including Rolwaling) - A Cultural Tour
Book, edited by Patricia East, Susan Höivik,
Max Petrik, Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin. Kathmandu: Eco
Himal and Mandala
Book Point. ISBN 99933-10-20-0. 124 pages, colour and monochrome
plates, trekking map. Read a review of the book [1.5 MB]. |
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| Academic Articles: |
| 2008b |
‘The Digitization of Naga Collections in the West and the Return of Culture’, pp. 367-377, in Michael Oppitz, Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen and Marion Wettstein, eds., Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India. Gent: Snoeck Publishers. [ISBN: 978-90-5349-680-0] |
| 2008a |
Entries on Mount Everest, Nepal and Sikkim in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present, edited by Peter N. Stearns. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [ISBN13: 9780195176322 & ISBN10: 0195176324] |
| 2007 |
‘Indigenous languages of Nepal: A critical analysis of the linguistic situation and contemporary issues’, pp. 6-46, in Yogendra Prasad Yadava and Pradeep L. Bajracharya, eds., The Indigenous Languages of Nepal (ILN): Situation, Policy Planning and Coordination. Lalitpur: National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities (NFDIN). [with Yogendra Prasad Yadava] [ISBN 99946-823-2-6] |
| 2006d |
‘Revisiting Ethnography, Recognizing a Forgotten People: The Thangmi of Nepal and India’, in Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS), Volume 11, Number 1, June 2006, pp. 97-181. [with Sara Shneiderman] |
| 2006c |
‘Rethinking Tibeto-Burman: Linguistic identities and classifications in the Himalayan periphery’, pp. 35-48, in P. Christiaan Klieger, ed., Tibetan Borderlands. Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 10, Number 2. Leiden: Brill. [ISBN 90 04 15482 5] |
| 2006b |
‘Minority language policies and politics in Nepal’, pp. 61-72, in Anju Saxena and Lars Borin, eds., Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia: Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [ISBN 3-11-018976-3] |
| 2006a |
'Seeking the tribe: Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling and Sikkim',
in Himal Southasian,
Volume 18, Number 5, March - April 2006, pp. 54-58. [ISSN 1012-9804] |
| 2005b |
'The morphophonology of Thangmi: A Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal',
in Yogendra Yadava, Govinda Bhattarai, Ram Raj Lohani, Balaram Prasain and Krishna Parajuli, eds., Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics, Linguistic Society of Nepal: Kathmandu, Nepal, pp. 267-284. [ISBN 9946-57-69-0]
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| 2005a |
'Language endangerment and linguistic rights in
the Himalayas: A case study from Nepal',
in Mountain
Research and Development (MRD),
Volume 25, Number 1, February 2005, pp. 4-9. [ISSN 0276-4741]
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download the PDF [1 MB]
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| 2004g |
'Newar-Thangmi lexical correspondences and the
linguistic classification of Thangmi', in Journal
of Asian and African Studies (JAAS),
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
(ILCAA), No. 68, September 2004, pp. 97-120. [ISSN 0387-2807]
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download the PDF [828 kb]
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| 2004f |
'Thangmi, Thami, Thani? Remembering a forgotten
people', Niko Bacinte Smarika. Darjeeling: Indian
Thami Welfare Association, pp. 82-100. [co-written with Sara Shneiderman]
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download the PDF [140 kb]
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| 2004e |
'Current ethnolinguistic concerns among
the overlooked Thangmi of Nepal', in Leonard Ashley
and Wayne Finke, eds., Language and Identity. Jamaica,
New York: Cummings & Hathaway, pp. 409-422. |
| 2004d |
'The path to Jan Sarkar in Dolakha
district: towards an ethnography of the Maoist movement' in Michael Hutt, ed., Himalayan
‘People’s War’: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion.
London: Hurst & Co. pp. 79-111. [co-written with Sara Shneiderman]
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to download the PDF [176 kb]
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| 2004c |
'Mark Turin', in Nepal Studies
in the UK: Conversations with Practitioners, edited by Pratyoush
Onta. Kathmandu: Chautari Books Series - 15, xlii + 210 pages, 2004,
hardback [ISBN: 99933-812-2-5], pp. 187-210.
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to download the PDF [168 kb]
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| 2004b |
'The phonology of Thangmi: a Tibeto-Burman
language of Nepal', in Journal of Asian and African Studies
(JAAS), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and
Africa (ILCAA), No. 67, March 2004, pp. 63-103. [ISSN 0387-2807]
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to download the PDF [476 kb]
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| 2004a |
'Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative
perspective', in Himalayan Languages: Past and Present,
Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 149, edited by Anju
Saxena, Berlin and New York: Mouton, pp. 101-139. [ISBN 3-11-017841-9]
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to download the PDF [808 kb]
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| 2003b |
'Ethnobotanical notes on Thangmi plant
names and their medicinal and ritual uses', in Contributions
to Nepalese Studies, Volume 30, No. 1 (January, 2003). Kathmandu,
pp. 19-52. [ISSN 0376-7574]
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to download the PDF [120 kb]
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| 2003a |
'A geolinguistic analysis of historical
writings on the Thangmi people and language of Nepal', in Geolinguistics,
Volume 29, 2003, edited by Wayne H. Finke and Leonard R. N. Ashley,
New York: Cummings & Hathway, pp. 71-92.
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to download the PDF [96 kb]
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| 2002b |
'Call me uncle: an outsider's experience
of Nepali kinship', in Contributions to Nepalese Studies,
Volume XXVIII, No. 2 (July 2001), Kathmandu: Tribhuvan University
Press, pp.277 - 283. [ISSN 0376-7574]
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to download the PDF [160 kb]
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| 2002a |
'Ethnonyms and other-nyms: linguistic
anthropology among the Thangmi of Nepal', in Territory and
Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas, edited by Katia Buffetrille
and Hildegard Diemberger, Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Leiden:
Brill, pp. 253-270. [ISBN 90-04-125973]
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to download the PDF [228 kb]
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| 2001 |
'Preliminary etymological notes on
Thangmi clan names and indigenous explanations of their provenance',
in the Journal of Nepalese Literature, Art and Culture,
Vol 3, No. 2 (2000), Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy, pp. 69-83. [co-authored
with Sara Shneiderman]
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to download the PDF [92 kb]
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| 2000d |
'Shared words, shared history?
The case of Thangmi and late classical Newar', in (Newâh
Vijñâna) The Journal of Newar Studies,
No.
3, 1999/2000, pp. 9-17. |
| 2000c |
'Time for a
true population
census: the case of the miscounted Thangmi', in Nagarik
(Citizen), Vol. II, No. 4, August-September 2000, Kathmandu,
pp. 14-19. |
| 2000b |
'The changing face of language and
linguistics in Nepal: some thoughts on Thangmi', in Janajati:
Journal of Nationalities of Nepal, Year 2, Vol. 1, Kathmandu:
National Committee for Development of Nationalities, pp. 49-62. |
| 2000a |
'Learning Nepali the SOAS way', in
Contributions to Nepalese Studies, Vol. XXVI, No.
1, January 1999, Kathmandu: Tribhuvan University Press, pp.171-182.
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to download the PDF [172 kb]
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| 1999c |
'By way of incest and the golden deer:
how the Thangmi came to be and the pitfalls of oral history', in Journal
of Nepalese Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, Kathmandu: Royal Nepal
Academy, pp. 13-19.
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to download the PDF [92 kb]
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| 1999b |
'The
Chenchu of the Indian Deccan', in the Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, edited by Richard
Lee and Richard Daly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 252-256.
[ISBN 0-521-57109-X] |
| 1999a |
'Whence Thangmi?
Historical
ethnography and comparative morphology', in Topics
in Nepalese Linguistics, edited by Yogendra Prasad Yadava
and Warren G. Glover, Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy, pp. 451-477. |
| 1998b |
'Himalayan anthropology: writing in
the forgotten Thangmi people', in CNWS Newsletter,
No. 17, Leiden, pp. 12-15. |
| 1998a |
'The Thangmi verbal agreement system
and the Kiranti connection', in Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies, Vol. LXI, No. 3, Oxford University
Press, pp. 476-491.
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to download the PDF [1.6 MB]
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| 1997 |
'Too many stars and not enough sky:
language and ethnicity among the Thakali of Nepal', in Contributions
to Nepalese Studies, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (July 1997), Kathmandu:
Tribhuvan University Press, pp.187-199. [ISSN 0376-7574]
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to download the PDF [48 kb]
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| Language Teaching Materials : |
| 2004b |
Nepali-English and English-Nepali Glossary, by
Banu Oja, Shambhu Oja, Mark Turin and Elisabeth Uphoff. 2nd edition.
Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
107 pages.
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to download the PDF [668 kb]
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search an online version of the dictionary in Unicode
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| 2004a |
Nepali: A Beginner's Primer, Conversation and Grammar,
by Banu Oja and Shambhu Oja, with editorial assistance
from Mark Turin. 3rd edition. Department of Asian Studies, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York. 225 pages, including verbal conjugation
charts, Nepali orthography and the Nepali spelling for the zones
and districts of Nepal.
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to download the PDF [2.1 MB]
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| 2001b |
Nepali Voor Beginners
(in Dutch), co-written with Rene Huysmans, used for teaching Nepali
at the India Instituut. [103 pages: 10 structured lessons, exercises,
answers, grammar, lexicon] [ISBN 90-9014981-3] |
| 2001a |
Nepali Phrasebook,
written for Where There Be Dragons [25 pages: map, introduction, grammar,
example sentences, general vocabulary - unpublished booklet] |
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| Reports: |
| 2007 |
'A Multitude of Mountain Voices: Language Diversity in the Himalayas’, in Sustainable Mountain Development in the greater Himalayan Region, ICIMOD Newsletter, Spring 2007, Volume 52, pp. 11-13.
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| 2006 |
'Digitizing and Distributing Visual Footage from the Himalayas’, in Nepali Aawaz, 07 December, 2006; Volume 2, Number 19, p. 21.
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| 2005 |
'Anthropological and Other Ancestors: Notes on Setting up a Visual Archive of the Discipline', in Anthropology News, Volume: 46, Number: 9 (December 2005), pp. 21-22. co-written with Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison.
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| 2003f |
'Conference report on Tibet and Her Neighbours ',
in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, No.
25/26 (Autumn 2003-Spring 2004), pp. 206. |
| 2003f |
'Conference report on The Agenda
of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy', in European
Bulletin of Himalayan Research, No. 24, Spring 2003, pp.
78-80. co-written with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2003e |
'Mountains
of literature', in Himal South Asian,
Vol. 16, No. 7, July 2003, pp. 36-38. |
| 2003d |
'Adam Stainton's cultural observations:
A plant hunter in the Himalayas', in IIAS Newsletter,
No. 31, July 2003, p. 22. [ISSN 0929-8738]
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to download the PDF [184 kb]
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| 2003c |
'Digitizing and distributing visual
footage from the Himalayas', in SnowLion Newsletter,
Volume 17, Number 2, p.23. [ISSN 1059-3691] |
| 2003b |
'Digitizing and distributing visual
resources from the Himalayas', in South Asia Newsletter: A
Publication of Cornell University’s South Asia Program,
Spring 2003, p. 4.
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download the PDF [26 kb]
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| 2003a |
'Returning footage to the Himalayas',
in Viewfinder: The Magazine of the British Universities
Film and Video Council (BUFVC), March 2003, No. 50, pp. 10-12].
[ISSN 0952-4444] [co-authored with Sara Shneiderman]
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to download the PDF [452 kb]
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| 2002c |
'A free web journal for the study
of the languages of the Himalayas', in IIAS Newsletter,
No. 29, November 2002, p. 37. [ISSN 0929-8738]
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to download the PDF [96 kb]
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| 2002b |
'Digital Himalaya: An ethnographic
archive in the digital age', in Beatrice von Bismarck et al (eds.),
Interachive: Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary
Art Field. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König,
pp. 359-361. [ISBN 3-88375-540-0] |
| 2002a |
'Digital Himalaya: an ethnographic
archive in the digital age', in European Bulletin of Himalayan
Research, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2002, pp. 136-141 [co-authored
with Sara Shneiderman]
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to download the PDF [24 kb]
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| 2001 |
'Haimendorf's
laptop: An ethnographic archive in the digital age',
in IIAS Newsletter, No. 26, November 2001, p. 20.
[co-authored with Sara Shneiderman] |
| 2000c |
'From
offset to online: new digital media in Nepal', in IIAS
Newsletter, No. 23, October 2000, p. 17. [ISSN 0929-8738] |
| 2000b |
'From Cambridge to Leiden', in Sense
of Place: Promoveren bij Letteren in Leiden, Lustrumcommissie:
Leiden, p.32. |
| 2000a |
Report on the '5th
Himalayan Languages Symposium', from September 13 to
15 in Kathmandu, in CNWS Newsletter, No. 19, Leiden,
pp. 52-53. |
| 1999 |
Report on the Seminar 'Grammatical
Phenomena in Himalayan Languages', from August 31 to September 3,
1998, at Leiden University, in CNWS Newsletter, No.
17, Leiden, pp. 46-47. |
| 1997e |
'Thangmi:
An overview of a Tibeto-Burman language and people of Nepal',
in Himalayan Research Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 2,
March 1998, Nepal Studies Association: Portland, Oregon, p.98. |
| 1997d |
'The
films and photographs of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf: The
making of an archive', in Himalayan Research
Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 2, March 1998, Nepal Studies Association:
Portland, Oregon, pp.96-97. |
| 1997c |
'In
memory of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf', in Himalayan
Research Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 2, March 1998, Nepal Studies
Association: Portland, Oregon, pp.1-3. [ISSN 0891-4834] |
| 1997b |
'Report
on the seminar: Grammatical Phenomena in Himalayan Languages',
from June 11-18, 1997, at Leiden University, in CNWS Newsletter,
No. 15, Leiden, co-written with René B. Huysmans, pp.70-71.
[ISSN 0924-6401] |
| 1997a |
'Thangmi:
an overview of a Tibeto-Burman language and people of Nepal',
in CNWS Newsletter, No. 15, Leiden, p.83. |
| 1996 |
'Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf:
an Obituary', in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African
Studies LIX (3), Oxford University Press, co-written with
Professor Alan Macfarlane, pp. 548-551. [ISSN 0041-977X]
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to download the PDF [544 kb]
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| 1995 |
'Cultural
change in North Western Nepal' in Queens'
College Record, CALL: Cambridge, pp.30-31. |
| 1994 |
'Pioneer returns' in SPW
Link:
The Newsletter of Schools Partnership Worldwide, Arbrose
Press: Ilford, UK, p.7. |
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| Book Reviews: |
| 2008d |
'Page Turner' (review of Khangchendzonga: Sacred Summit by Pema Wangchuk and Mita Zulca), in ECS Magazine, May 2008, p. 70.
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| 2008c |
'Mapping a Mosaic' (review of Infused Ethnicities: Nepal’s Interlaced and Indivisible Social Mosaic by Gauri Nath Rimal), in Nepali
Times, No. 392, 21 - 27 March, 2008, p. 12.
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download the PDF [300 kb]
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| 2008b |
'Book review' (review of Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal by Geoff Childs), in Contemporary South Asia 16(1), March 2008, pp.110-111.
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| 2008a |
'The Stuff of Legend' (review of Khangchendzonga: Sacred Summit by Pema Wangchuk and Mita Zulca), in Read: A Fineprint Bookclub Foundation Initiative, January - April 2008, Issue 4, Volume 2, Number 1, 2008, p.29.
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download the PDF [328 kb]
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| 2007e |
'Book review' (review of 'If Each Comes Halfway': Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal by Kathryn
S. March), in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
Volume 13, pp. 477-522.
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| 2007d |
'Book review' (review of Maoist Movement in Nepal: A Sociological Perspective by Uddhab Prasad Pyakurel), in Liberal Democracy Nepal Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2007.
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| 2007c |
'On Archives' (review of Creating An Archive Today edited by Toshie Awaya), in IIAS Newsletter, Number 43, Spring 2007, p. 24.
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| 2007b |
'Harka's Maps' (review of three books by Harka Gurung), in Nepali
Times, No. 333, 26 January - 1 February, 2007, pp. 8-9.
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download the PDF [604 kb]
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| 2007a |
'Book review' (review of Yohlmo - Nepali - English Dictionary compiled by Anna Maria Hari and Chhegu Lama), in Himalayan Linguistics, Himalayan Linguistics Review 1: 1-4.
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download the PDF [60 kb]
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| 2006f |
'Book review' (review of Secrets of Manang by Clint Rogers), in Mountain Research and Development, November 2006, Volume 26, No. 4, pp. 386-387.
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download the PDF [68 kb]
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| 2006e |
'Ageless Wonder' (review of Reflections: Poems by Kesar Lall), in Nepali
Times, No. 322, 10-16 November, 2006, p.13.
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download the PDF [269 kb]
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| 2006d |
'Timeless Trader' (review of Syamukapu: The Lhasa Newars of Kalimpong and Kathmandy by Deb Shova Kansakar Hilker), in Nepali
Times, No. 319, 20-26 October, 2006, p.13.
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download the PDF [208 kb]
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| 2006c |
'Book review' (review of Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance by David and Maya Bradley, eds.), in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, June 2006, Volume 16, No. 1, pp. 148-149.
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| 2006b |
'Amid the herd, simple humanity'
(review of Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by
Piers Vitebsky), in the Times Higher Education Supplement,
Issue No. 1741, 5 May, 2006, p. 25.
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| 2006a |
Book review of High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists by
Kenneth M. Bauer), in the Policy Matters,
Issue 14, March 2006, pp. 384-386.
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| 2005d |
'Book review' (review of In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim: A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908 by Kurt Meyer and Pamela Deuel Meyer), in Bulletin of Tibetology, Volume 41, Number 2, November 2005, pp. 77-79.
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| 2005c |
'Beyond the Lost Horizon Clichés'
(review of A History of Nepal by
John Whelpton), in the Times Higher Education Supplement,
Issue No. 1708, 9 September, 2005, p. 28.
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download the PDF [84 kb]
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| 2005b |
'The rise and fall of humanity's civil tongues'
(review of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by
Nicholas Ostler), in the Times Higher Education Supplement,
Issue No. 1688, 22 April, 2005, pp. 26-27.
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| 2005a |
'Book review' (review of Clear Sky, Red
Earth by
Sienna Craig and Tenzin Norbu), in Nepali
Times, No. 243, 15-21 April, 2005, p.10.
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download the PDF [148 kb]
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| 2004l |
'Documenting Himalayan languages: A critical
review dealing with two recent contributions' (review of Chantyal
Dictionary and Texts by
Michael Noonan in collaboration with Ram Prasad Bhulanja, Jag Man
Chhantyal and William Pagliuca and A Bantawa
Dictionary by Werner
Winter), in Studies in Nepali History and Society,
No. 9 (1), June 2004, pp. 207-213.
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download the PDF [29 kb]
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| 2004k |
'Book review' (review of Catalogue of Lepcha
Manuscripts in the Van Manen Collection by
Heleen Plaisier), in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research,
No. 25/26 (Autumn 2003-Spring 2004), pp. 232-234; republished in Now Daily, Wednesday, 29 November, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 247, Gangtok, pp.1-2.
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| 2004j |
'Book review' (review of Kadampa
Sites of Phempo: A Guide to Some Early Buddhist Monasteries in
Central Tibet by
Ulrike and Hans-Ulrich Roesler), in Nepali Times,
No. 230, 14-20 January, 2005, p.16.
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download the PDF [306 kb]
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| 2004i |
'Book review' (review of Riddum: The Voice
of the Ancestors by
Martino Nicoletti), in Nation Weekly, Volume 1,
No. 31, 21 November, 2004, p. 57.
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download the PDF [73 kb]
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| 2004h |
'Book review' (review of A
Kingdom Under Siege: Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, 1996 to 2003 by
Deepak Thapa with Bandita Sijapati), in Himalaya:
The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Volume
XXIII, Number 1, pp. 75-76. |
| 2004g |
'Book review' (review of The Blessings of
Bhutan by Russ and Blyth Carpenter), in Asian Studies
Review, June 2004, Volume 28, Number 2, pp. 199-200.
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download the PDF [60 kb]
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| 2004f |
'Book review' (review of Sensory Biographies:
Lives and Deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists by
Robert Desjarlais),
in Asian Studies Review,
June 2004, Volume 28, Number 2, pp. 200-201.
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| 2004e |
'Book review' (review of Lungta
14: Aspects of Tibetan History), in Himalayan Research
Bulletin, 2002, Volume XXII, Number 1-2, pp. 55-56.
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to download the PDF [1.1 MB]
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| 2004d |
'Book review' (review of Fluid
Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal by William
F. Fisher), in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
March 2004, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 208-209.
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to download the PDF [288 kb]
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| 2004c |
'Book review' (review of Ancestral
Voices: Oral ritual texts and their social contexts among the Mewahang
Rai of Nepal by Martin Gaenszle), in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 2004, Volume 10, Issue
1, pp. 200-201.
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to download the PDF [288 kb]
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| 2004b |
'Book review' (review of Visual
Methods in Social Research by Marcus Banks), in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 2004, Volume
10, Issue 1, pp. 178-179.
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to download the PDF [56 kb]
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| 2004a |
'Bhutan
flower book' (review of A Painter’s Year in
the Forests of Bhutan), in Nepali Times, No.
178, 9 - 15 January, 2003, p.20.
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download the PDF [175 kb]
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| 2003h |
'Book review' (review of Ancestral
Voices: Oral ritual texts and their social contexts among the Mewahang
Rai of Nepal by Martin Gaenszle), in European Bulletin
of Himalayan Research, No. 24, Spring 2003, pp. 132-135. |
| 2003g |
'Book review' (review of Post-Soviet
Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan by Joma Nazpary),
in Inner Asia, Volume 5, No. 2, 2003, p.195-197. |
| 2003f |
'Under
siege: everything you wanted to know about Nepal's Maoist insurgency'
(review of A Kingdom Under Siege), in Nepali Times,
No. 172, 28 November - 4 December, 2003, p.13.
- click here to
download the PDF [475 kb]
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| 2003e |
'Nepal
today' (review of State of Nepal), in Biblio:
A Review of Books, Vol. VIII, Nos. 9 & 10, September
- October, 2003, p. 27-28. |
| 2003d |
'Lo
and Behold' (review of The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang):
A Historical Study), in Nepali Times, No. 168,
31 October - 6 November, 2003, p. 13.
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download the PDF [366 kb]
|
| 2003c |
'Review of State of Nepal', in Contributions
to Nepalese Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 2002, Tribhuvan
University Press, Kathmandu: Nepal, pp. 365-371.
- click here
to download the PDF [44 kb]
|
| 2003b |
'The
Mad Carew' (review of Kew: The Nepal Maoist Strain
by Paul Ryder Ryan), in Nepali Times, No. 149,
13 - 19 June, 2003, p.13. |
| 2003a |
'Sixteen
opinions on the state of the nation' (review of State
of Nepal by Himal Books), in Nepali Times, No.
135, 7 - 13 March, 2003, p. 13. |
| 2002g |
'Review of Robert Powell's Himalayan
Drawings' in Contributions to Nepalese Studies, Vol.
29, No. 1, January 2002, Tribhuvan University Press, Kathmandu: Nepal,
pp. 185-192.
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to download the PDF [24 kb]
|
| 2002f |
'Imaginary
documentation: A retrospective of artist Robert Powell’s
work sheds light on ideas about art, reality and ethnography in the
Himalaya' (review of Himalayan Drawings by Robert Powell),
in Nepali Times, No. 115, 11-17 October, 2002, p.
8-9.
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download the PDF [263 kb]
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| 2002e |
'The
ethnographic draughtsman' (review of Himalayan Drawings
by Robert Powell), in Himal South Asian, October
2002: 52-56. |
| 2002d |
'Lovesick,
homesick or simply sick of Tibet' (review of Mimmanahpau:
Letter from a Lhasa Merchant to his Wife, by Chittadhar 'Hridaya',
translated by Kesar Lall), in Nepali Times, No. 112,
20-26 September, 2002, p. 13.
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download the PDF [63 kb]
|
| 2002c |
'Learning
Nepali the Klingon way' (review of Talk Now! Learn
Nepali CD-ROM by EuroTalk), in Nepali Times,
No. 110, 6 -12 September, 2002, p. 13.
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download the PDF [188 kb]
|
| 2002b |
'Learn Nepali: Talk later' (review
of Talk Now! Learn Nepali CD-ROM by EuroTalk), in IIAS
Newsletter, No. 28, August 2002, p. 29.
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to download the PDF [144 kb]
|
| 2002a |
'A Journalist’s Encyclopædia
on the Democratic Movement in Nepal' (review of Kathmandu Spring:
The People’s Movement of 1990 by Kiyoko Ogura), in IIAS
Newsletter, No. 27, March 2002, p. 40.
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to download the PDF [104 kb]
|
| 2001g |
'An
activist intellectual unintimidated by power' (review
of Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian by Eqbal
Ahmad), in IIAS Newsletter, No. 26, November 2001,
p. 7. |
| 2001f |
'This land is my land...(and I'm
a
woman)', (review of Property Rights of Women in Nepal by Devi
Prasad Kandel), in Nepali Times, No. 57, 24-30 August,
2001, p. 17.
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download the PDF [334 kb]
|
| 2001e |
'Was The Hobbit born in Lamjung',
(review of The Throne of Stone, by John Philip Cross), in
Nepali Times, No. 38, 13-19 April, 2001, p. 17. |
| 2001d |
'Banjas along the Barkhor', (review
of Newar Merchants in Lhasa, by Kesar Lall), in Nepali
Times, No. 34, 16- 22 March, 2001, p. 17. |
| 2001c |
'Himalayan
Trade From Outside In' (review of Tibetan Border Worlds:
A Geohistorical Analysis of Trade and Traders by Wim van Spengen),
in IIAS Newsletter, No. 24, February 2001, p. 16.
[ISSN 0929-8738] |
| 2001b |
'Never Lost in Himalayan Space' (review
of Himalayan Space, edited by Balthasar Bickel and Martin Gaenszle),
in Contributions to Nepalese Studies, Vol. 26, No.
2, July 1999, Tribhuvan University Press, Kathmandu: Nepal, pp. 309-322.
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to download the PDF [132 kb]
|
| 2001a |
'Mapping
the Tibetoid World', (review of Mapping the Tibetan
World), in Nepali Times, No. 24, 5 - 11 January,
2001, p. 17. |
| 2000d |
Book review of The Thakali: A Himalayan
Ethnography by Michael Vinding, in European Bulletin of
Himalayan Research, No. 18. Spring 2000, pp. 97-100. [ISSN
0943 8254] |
| 2000c |
'A Festschrift Lacking Unity', (review
of Nepal: Myths & Realities: In Commemoration of the 75th Birthday
of Dr. Wolf Donner. Edited by Ram Pratap Thapa and Joachim Baaden),
in The Kathmandu Post, Sunday, May 14, 2000, Vol.
VIII, No. 86, Kantipur Publications; Kathmandu, Nepal, p.4.
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to download the PDF [69 kb]
|
| 2000b |
'A
Nepali Language Feast' (review of Teach Yourself Nepali
by Michael Hutt and Abhi Subedi), in IIAS Newsletter,
No. 21, February 2000, p. 40. [ISSN 0929-8738] |
| 2000a |
'A Mediocre Endeavour', (review of
At Home In Asia: Expatriates in Southeast Asia and Their Stories
by Harold Stephens), in The Kathmandu Post, Sunday,
February 27, 2000, Vol. VII, No.364, Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu,
Nepal, p. 4. |
| 1999 |
'Nothing
to be Cross about', (review of The Call of Nepal
by J.P. Cross) in Himal South Asian, Vol. XII, No.
6, Himalmedia: Kathmandu, Nepal, pp. 58-59. |
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| Journalism: |
| 2007c |
'A Mother of Mother Tongue Education', in Nepali Times, No. 343, 6 - 12 April, p. 13.
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| 2007b |
'Hepatitis Vaccine', in Nepali Times, No. 337, 23 February - 1 March, p. 3, reprinted in The Kathmandu Post, Volume XV, Number 10, Wednesday, February 28, 2007, p. 5.
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download a JPEG [405 kb]
|
| 2007a |
'My tongue or yours', in Nepali Times, No. 336, 16 - 22 February, pp. 8-9, reprinted in Weekend Special NOW!, 10 March, 2007, pages 1-2, and in Nepal Information - Zeitschrift der Deutsch-Nepalischen Gesselschaft e.V., Nr. 99 - 2/2007, as 'Meine Sprache oder deine?', pp. 47-48 [download 4.2 MB].
- click here to
download the PDF [570 kb]
|
| 2006d |
Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age (continued)', in NOW! Daily, Thursday, 02 November, 2006; Volume 5, Number 256, p. 2.
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download the PDF [128 kb]
|
| 2006c |
Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age', in NOW! Daily, Wednesday, 01 November, 2006; Volume 5, Number 255, p. 2.
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download the PDF [292 kb]
|
| 2006b |
'Mustang: Land of Ancient Cultures and Scenic Wonders', in Himayalan Travel Mate, Volume 2 (1), pp. 72-77.
- click here to
download the PDF [1 MB]
|
| 2006a |
'Erna's joint venture', in Nepali
Times, No. 284, 3 - 9 February, p. 10.
- click here to
download the PDF [180 kb]
|
| 2005b |
'Across the hump', a
report
on the Kathmandu-Lhasa bus in Nepali
Times, No. 247,13 - 19 May, pp. 8-9.
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download the PDF [400 kb]
|
| 2005a |
'Looking up to the mountains:
A centre for Himalayan studies located in the plains', in Nepali
Times,
No. 246, 6 - 12 May, p.10.
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download the PDF [145 kb]
|
| 2004b |
'Dashain in Dolakha: cautiously
optimistic', in Nation Weekly, Volume 1, No. 30, 14 November,
2004, pp. 32-33, co-written with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2004a |
'The
centre of things', in Nepali Times,
No. 180, 23- 29 January, 2004, pp. 20. |
| 2003f |
'Yams
in boulderland: Nepalis on the plateau', in Nepali
Times, No. 161, 5 - 11 September, 2003, pp. 8-9, co-written
with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2003e |
'Reply',
in Nepali Times, No. 152, 4 - 10 July, 2003, p. 3,
co-written with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2003d |
'Tibet,
Tibet', in Nepali Times, No. 150, 20
- 26 June, 2003, p. 3, co-written with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2003c |
'Hillary
mania in DC' in Nepali Times, No. 148,
6 - 12 June 2003, p. 19. |
| 2003b |
'Ministries
of silly names' (Opinion Column) in Mare: Leids
Universitair Weekblad, No. 28, 17 April, 2003, p.22. |
| 2003a |
'Take
me to your Jewish leader' (Opinion Column) in Mare:
Leids Universitair Weekblad, No. 22, 6 March, 2003. |
| 2002 |
'London
calling', in ...and?, Issue 1, March
2002, p. 12. [ISSN 1476-9875] |
| 2001f |
'From
below sea level to the highest mountain', in Nepali
Times, No. 68, 16-22 November 2001, p. 9. |
| 2001e |
'Have you taken your fooding? A white
man's experience of Nepali cuisine', in Nepali Times,
No. 41, 4 - 10 May 2001, p.11. |
| 2001d |
'Learning about Himalayan body parts
(through observation rather than participation)', in Nepali
Times, No. 40, 27 April - 3 May 2001, p.17. |
| 2001c |
'Learning
Himalayan body parts', in IIAS Newsletter,
No. 24, February 2001, p. 18. [ISSN 0929-8738] |
| 2001b |
'The
Internet on the roof of the world', in Nepali
Times, No. 27, 26 January - 1 February, 2001, pp. 10-11. |
| 2001a |
'About Kathmandu (Kantipur)', introduction
on City Map: Kathmandu City, Scale 1:10,000, Shangri-La
Maps, Kathmandu, Nepal. co-written with Sara Shneiderman. [ISBN
99933-6-008-2] |
| 2000m |
'Mustang'
in Eyes on Nepal: Alpine Pocket Guide, 3rd edition,
Kathmandu, pp. 252-261. |
| 2000l |
'Why talk?', in Nepali Times,
No. 7, 30 August-5 September, Kathmandu, p. 3. |
| 2000k |
'Buildings, buildings everywhere.
But why?', in Face to Face: Magazine for Development,
No. 21, July-August, Kathmandu, pp. 28-29. |
| 2000j |
'Indian
English: the last breath of the Raj', in The
Kathmandu Post, Sunday, July 2, 2000, Vol. VIII, No. 133,
Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. II (Sunday Post Supplement). |
| 2000i |
'What's
in a Nepali name? Quite a lot actually', in The
Kathmandu Post, Sunday, May 21, 2000, Vol. VIII, No. 93,
Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. I (Sunday Post Supplement). |
| 2000h |
'The
allure of Darjeeling' in The Kathmandu Post,
Sunday, April 30, 2000, Vol. VIII, No. 72, Kantipur Publications:
Kathmandu, Nepal, p. II (Sunday Post Supplement). |
| 2000g |
'Rethinking
Himalayan cinema', in People's Review: A Political
and Business Weekly, Thursday, April 27 to May 3, 2000,
Baisakh
15 to 21, 2057, Vol. IX, No. 37, p.6, co-written with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2000f |
'Please
correct', in People's Review: A Political and Business
Weekly, Thursday, April 13 to 19, 2000, Baisakh 2 to 8, 2057,
Vol. IX, No. 35, p.6. |
| 2000e |
'Caravan:
a rejoinder', in Himal South Asian,
Vol. XIII, No. 4, April, Himalmedia: Kathmandu, Nepal, p.5, co-written
with Sara Shneiderman. |
| 2000d |
'How
to make a Nepali phone call', in The Kathmandu
Post, Sunday, April 9, 2000, Vol. VIII, No. 51, Kantipur
Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. II (Sunday Post Supplement). |
| 2000c |
'How to write a Nepali letter?',
in
People's Review: A Political and Business Weekly,
Thursday, March 30 to April 12, 2000, Chaitra 17, 2056 to Baisakh
1, 2057, Vol. IX, No. 34, p.4. |
| 2000b |
'Dialpad.com
and the possibilities of unlimited guff', in The
Kathmandu Post, Sunday, March 12, 2000, Vol. VIII, No. 23,
Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. II (Sunday Post Supplement). |
| 2000a |
'How
to write a Nepali letter?', in The Kathmandu
Post, Sunday, February 13, 2000, Vol. VII, No. 350, Kantipur
Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. II (Sunday Post Supplement). |
| 1999f |
'The
peak of selfishness', in The Guardian,
Monday, November 1, 1999, No. 47644, p.9. |
| 1999e |
'How to shit in the woods', in Earshot:
the Kathmandu alternative, No. 3, monsoon '99, p. 28. |
| 1999d |
'This is London', in Himal
South Asian, Vol. XII, No. 9, Himalmedia: Kathmandu, Nepal,
pp. 54-55. |
| 1999c |
'Kathmandu's riders in white', in
The Kathmandu Post, Saturday, May 15, 1999, Vol.
VII, No. 85, Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. 4. |
| 1999b |
'Sloppy reporting', in The
Kathmandu Post, Friday, March 19, 1999, Vol. VII, No. 29,
Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p. 4. |
| 1999a |
'Readers' Letters: Asia, Nepal', in
RoughNews, January to March 1999, Issue 7, Rough
Guides: London, p. 6. |
| 1997h |
'Letter from Nepal', in Shanghai
Pictorial, December, 1998, p.3. [ISSN 1004-2946] |
| 1997g |
'Distant
Neighbours' (Opinion Column) in Mare: Leids Universitair
Weekblad, No. 5, 1 October, Brouwer Offset: Delft, p.8. |
| 1997f |
'Distant
Neighbours' (Opinion Column) in Mare: Leids Universitair
Weekblad, No. 3, 17 September, Brouwer Offset: Delft, p.8. |
| 1997e |
'Distant
Neighbours' (Opinion Column) in Mare: Leids Universitair
Weekblad, No. 1, 3 September, Brouwer Offset: Delft, p.8. |
| 1997d |
'Essentially a road to nowhere', in
The Kathmandu Post, Sunday, May 3, 1998, Vol. VI,
No. 73, Kantipur Publications: Kathmandu, Nepal, p.4. |
| 1997c |
'Don't pick your nose', in Himal
South Asia Magazine, Vol. XI, No. 1, Himal: Kathmandu, Nepal,
p.4. [ISSN 1012-9804] |
| 1997b |
'Distant
Neighbours' (Opinion Column) in Mare: Leids Universitair
Weekblad, Vol. VII, No. 9, October, Brouwer Offset: Delft,
p.20. |
| 1997a |
'Distant
Neighbours' (Opinion Column) in Mare: Leids Universitair
Weekblad, Vol. V, No. 25, September, Brouwer Offset: Delft,
p.16. [ISSN 0166-3699] |
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| Articles in Dutch: |
| 2006 |
'Overleg lichtpuntje in bloedig conflict Nepal', in Leeuwarder Courant, vrijdag 10 maart, 2006, p. 5. [interview with Mark Turin] |
| 2002 |
'Een lokaal perspectief op
het koninklijk bloedbad', in Samachar (nieuwsbrief
van de stichting ICFON), 11e jaargang nr. 4, juli 2002, p. 3-6. [ISSN
0924-7181] |
| 2001c |
'Heb je al gegeten?',
in Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON),
11e jaargang nr. 1, augustus 2001, p. 6-7. [ISSN 0924-7181] |
| 2001b |
'Lichaamstaal in de Himalaya',
in Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON),
10e jaargang nr. 4, juni 2001, p. 1. [ISSN 0924-7181] |
| 2001a |
'Hoe schrijf ik een brief
in nepalese stijl', in Samachar (nieuwsbrief
van de stichting ICFON), 10e jaargang nr. 3, februari 2001, pp. 2-3.
[ISSN 0924-7181] |
| 2000 |
'Himalaya:
een oriëntalistisch sprookje', in Samachar
(nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON), 10e jaargang nr. 2, november
2000, co-written with René B. Huysmans, pp. 7-8. [ISSN
0924-7181] |
| 1999 |
'Het
vlakke land', in 360° Album van de nederlandse
ruimte, Uitgeverij de Balie: Amsterdam, pp. 50-57.[ISBN
90-6617-231-2] |
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| Articles in Nepali: |
| 2000 |
'Bhavan bhavan, sabaitira bhavan, tara kina?',
in Haka-Haki (Nepali language edition), Vol.III,
No. 5, (Magh-Phagun 2056) January 2000, pp.36-37. |
| 1999 |
'Thamiharu Thimika hun?', in Arko Satdine (Nepali
language edition), Vol. I, No. 1, January 16, p.10. |
| 1998 |
'Vismritapraya: 'Thamiharu', in Himal (Nepali
language edition), Vol. VIII, No. 3, Himal: Kathmandu, Nepal, pp.
48-50. |
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| Translations: |
| 2000b |
translation from Dutch to English
of sleeve notes written by Renee Jonker for Osiris Trio
CD, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Trios for piano, violin and cello,
op. 49 in D minor and op. 66 in C major, Cobra Records. [COBRA 0002] |
| 2000a |
translation from Dutch to English
of 'Toevoegen door weghalen', by Kees Buckens, in Gerard Höweler:
de wolk in de kei, Amsterdam, p.5. |
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| Editing: |
| 2007 |
Rewrote and edited Darjeeling and Sikkim Milestones Pocket Guides for Metroprints, Gangtok. PDF files of the booklets are freely downloadable, Darjeeling [5.5 MB] and Sikkim [7.4 MB]. |
| 2006 |
Edited Special Issue of the Bulletin of Tibetology on Culture, History and Language in Sikkim, Volume 41, Number 2, November 2005. |
| 2005... |
Peer reviewing of articles submitted to Mountain Research and Development (MRD), Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS), European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) and Journal of Asian Studies (JAS). |
| 2005 |
Copy editing of Tales of Kathmandu: Folktales
from the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, by Karna Shakya and
Linda Griffith, republished by Mandala Publications, August 2005,
Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| 2001 |
English language advisor for Briefing
Paper: A Conference About 600 Million People, Inzet
(Association for North-South Campaigns), April 2001, 8 pages. |
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