European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
The European
Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) was founded by the late Richard
Burghart in 1991 and has appeared twice yearly ever since. It is edited on a
rotating basis between France (CNRS),
Germany (South Asia
Institute) and the United Kingdom (SOAS).
From 2019 to 2023, the EBHR is hosted at the Centre for Himalayan Studies at CNRS in France.
Co-editors:
Tristan Bruslé (CNRS), Stéphane Gros (CNRS), Philippe Ramirez (CNRS)
Associate editor:
Arik Moran (University of Haifa), Book reviews editor
Copyeditor:
Bernadette Sellers (CNRS)
The EBHR publishes in English with the aim of reaching a large audience around the world. The subjects covered by the journal range from geography and economics to anthropology, sociology, philology, history, art history, archaeology, and history of religions. This multidisciplinarity has so far defined the journal in its mission to be a publication outlet for Himalayan studies at large, across areas of specialty within the field of human and social sciences.
In terms of geographical scope, the journal has published material that covers the Himalayas within a broad definition and not limited to the geological region, but taken to include the Karakorum, Hindukush, Ladakh, southern Tibet, Kashmir, north-west India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and north-east India.
Publishing with and reading the EBHR is free of charge and all journal content is licensed under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0. We are now publishing open access and online exclusively on the OpenEdition Journals platform. General information about the EBHR, submission formats, and instructions for authors can be found on the journal's website https://journals.openedition.org/ebhr/.
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- Cover, contents (61 kb)
- Editorial (57 kb)
- In Memoriam - Harka Gurung (61 kb)
author: Monique Fort - Castes Among the Newars. The Debate between Colin Rosser and Declan Quigley on the Status of Shrestha (152 kb)
author: Bal Gopal Shrestha - Himalayan Hill Stations from the British Raj to Indian Tourism (397 kb)
author: Isabella Sacareau - Crisis in Education and Future Challenges for Nepal (119 kb)
author: Kedar Bhakta Mathema - Our Hymns are Different but our Gods are the Same: Religious Rituals in Modern Garment Factories in Nepal (106 kb)
author: Mallika Shakya - Is Bangani a V2 Language? (377 kb)
author: Claus Peter Zoller - Digital Himalaya: Nepal in Context. Annual Lecture to the British Nepal Association, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, on 27th June 2003 (90 kb)
author: Alan Macfarlane - Close-up and Wide-Angle. On Comparative Ethnography in the Himalayas - and Beyond (131 kb)
author: Michael Oppitz - The World Upside-Down: Nepalese Migrants in Northern India (131 kb)
author: Tristan Bruslé - Response to Kamal Prakash Malla's review of History of Nepal (115 kb)
author: John Whelpton - Democracy, Citizenship and Belonging in the Himalayas. Seminar held at the IIC, New Delhi, 20th-21st March 2007 (90 kb)
author: Gérard Toffin and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka - Acel Michaels: The Price of Purity: The Religious Judge in 19th Century Nepal (131 kb)
author: Catherine Clémentin-Ojha - Susan Thieme: Social Networks and Migration. Far Western Labour Migrants in Delhi (86 kb)
author: Tristan Bruslé - David Zurick, Julsun Pacheco et al.: Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya (86 kb)
author: Joëlle Smadja - Notes on Contributors (57 kb)
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- Cover, contents (176 kb)
- Editorial (94 kb)
- Working with Buddhists (152 kb)
author: Alexander W. Macdonald - A Tale of Two Temples: Culture, Capital, and Community in Mustang, Nepal (242 kb)
author: Sienna Craig - Zombie Slayers in a 'Hidden Valley' (sbas yul): Sacred Geography and Political Organisation in the Nepal-Tibet Borderland (311 kb)
author: Francis Khek Gee Lim - Realities and Images of Nepal's Maoists after the Attack on Beni (418 kb)
author: Kiyoko Ogura - Research Report: The Tibetan Dialect of Lende (Kyirong): A Grammatical Description with Historical Annotations (123 kb)
author: Brigitte Huber - Conference Report on Rituals of Divine Kingship in the Central Himalayas (135 kb)
author: William S. Sax - Ina Rösing: Trance, Besessenheit und Amnesie bei den Schamanen der Changpa-Nomaden im ladakhischen Changthang [Trance, Possession and Amnesia Among the Shamans of the Changpa Nomads in Changthang of Ladakh] (78 kb)
author: András Höfer - Daniela Berti and Gilles Tarabout (eds.): Terra, Territorio e Società nel Mondo Indiano (102 kb)
author: Chiara Letizia - William S. Sax: Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pāṇḍav Līlā of Garhwal (102 kb)
author: Stuart Blackburn - David N. Gellner (ed.): Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences (115 kb)
author: John Whelpton - Charlotte E. Hardman: Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion Among the Lohorung Rai (90 kb)
author: Mark Turin - Michael Hutt: Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan (102 kb)
author: Karl-Heinz Krämer - Olivia Aubriot: L'eau, Miroir d'une Société. Irrigation paysanne au Népal central (106 kb)
author: Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt - Harka Gurung: Social Demography of Nepal, Census 2001 (213 kb)
author: David Seddon - Notes on Contributors (90 kb)
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- Cover, contents (152 kb)
- Editorial (76 kb)
- Cultural Change and Remembering: Recording the Life of Au Leshey (209 kb)
author: Eberhard Berg - Sovereignty and Honours as a Redistributive Process: An Ethnohistory of the Temple Trust of Manakamana in Nepal (270 kb)
author: Tone Bleie and Lok Bhattarai - Kàṭṭo khuvāune: Two Brahmins for Nepal's Departed Kings (680 kb)
author: Marianna Kropf - Hope and Despair? Comments on Community and Economic Development in Rural Syangja ( A Reply to Alan Macfarlane) (156 kb)
author: Steven Folmar and Morgan Edwards - A Covenant with Nepal? Ethics and Ethnography During the People's War (156 kb)
author: Sharon Hepburn - Comparative Dictionary of Tibetan Dialects (CDTD): A Research Report (131 kb)
author: Roland Bielmeier - Medicine and the Emergency. Re-reading Vincanne Adams' Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution (147 kb)
author: Ian Harper - K.M.Dixit and S. Ramachandaran (eds.): State of Nepal (160 kb)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Mahesh Banskota, Trilok S. Papola and Jürgen Ricter (eds.): Growth, Poverty Allevation, and Sustainable Resource Management in the Mountain Areas of South Asia (188 kb)
author: David Seddon - Notes on Contributors (90 kb)
- Full Download (2.2 MB)
- Cover, contents (106 kb)
- Life-Journeys: Rai Ritual Healers' Narratives on their Calling (205 kb)
author: Martin Gaenszle - The Construction of Personhood: Two Life Stories from Garhwal (258 kb)
author: Antje Linkenbach - Protecting the Treasures of the Earth: Nominating Dolpo as a World Heritage Site (651 kb)
author: Terence Hay-Edie - On the Relationship between Folk and Classical Traditions in South Asia (299 kb)
author: Claus Peter Zoller - Sliding Down Hill: Some Reflections on Thirty Years of Change in a Himalayan Village - With Responses from Ben Campbell, Kul B. Luintel, Ernestine McHugh and David Seddon (201 kb)
author: Alan Macfarlane - Observations During the State-of-Emergency, Kathmandu, December 2001 (111 kb)
author: Judith Pettigrew - 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (Heidelberg, September 9-14,2002) (205 kb)
author: Martin Gaenszle and Gisèle Krauskopff - Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age (111 kb)
author: Sara Shneiderman, Mark Turin and the Digital Himalaya Project Team - Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism XIIIth International Congress (111 kb)
author: none - Conference Report: The International Folklore Congress (Kathmandu, 5-7 May 2001) (111 kb)
author: Marianna Kropf - Sound Recording from the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (111 kb)
author: none - Appeal to Nepal Scholars (111 kb)
author: Deepak Thapa - Obituary: Bert van den Hoek (205 kb)
author: Bal Gopal Shrestha and Han F. Vermeulen - Japanese Studies on the Himalayas and Nepal (Social Sciences and Humanities, 1900-2000) (352 kb)
author: Hiroshi Ishii - Translating a Life: B.P. Koirala's Atmabrittanta (152 kb)
author: Rhoderick Chalmers - Alex McKay (ed.): Pilgrimage in Tibet (86 kb)
author: Maria Phylactou - Martijn van Beek, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen and Poul Pedersen (eds.): Ladakh: Culture, History and Development between Himalaya and Karakoram (82 kb)
author: Maria Phylactou - Anne-Marie Blondeau: Tibetan Mountain Deities: Their Cults and Representations (98 kb)
author: Martin Gaenszle - Mahehswar P. Joshi, Allen C. Fanger and Charles W. Brown (eds.): Himalaya: Past and Present (94 kb)
author: Daniela Berti - Hermann Kreutzmann (ed.): Sharing Water: Irrigation and Water Management in the Hindu Kush-Karakorum-Himalaya (102 kb)
author: Linden Vincent - Pasang Wangdu and Hildegard Diemberger: dBa'bzhed. The Royal Narrative Concerning the Bringing of the Buddha's Doctrine to Tibet: Translation and Facsimile Edition of the TIbetan Text (70 kb)
author: Rudolf Kaschewsky - Tsering Gyalbo, Guntram Hazod and Per K. Sørensen: Civilisation at the Foot of Mount Sham-po: The Royal House of lHa Bug-pa-can and the History of g.Ya'-bzang. Historical texts from the Monastary of g.Ya'-bzang in Yar-stod (Central Tibet) (78 kb)
author: Rudolf Kaschewsky - Todd T. Lewis: Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism (86 kb)
author: Will Douglas - Matthew Kapstein:The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Constestation and Memory (82 kb)
author: Martin Boord - Notes on Contributors (86 kb)
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- Cover, contents (344 kb)
- Nine Years On: The 1999 Election and Nepalese Politics Since the 1990 Janandolan (4.9 MB)
author: John Whelpton - Problems of Democracy in Nepal (3.9 MB)
author: Pancha N. Maharjan - Credit Relations in Nepal: Social Embeddedness and Sacred Money (4.2 MB)
author: Michael Mühlich - A Literary Biography of Michael Aris (1.8 MB)
author: Charles Ramble - Michael Aris (745 kb)
author: Karma Phuntsho - A Letter Received in Memory of Michael Aris, from Bhiksuṇī Dhammāvatī (188 kb)
author: Bhiksuṇī Dhammāvatī - Michael Aris: An Exhaustive Bibliography (643 kb)
author: none - A Report on the 5th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Kathmandu, Nepal, September 13th-15th, 1999 (1.5 MB)
author: none - Conference on the Buddhist Heritage of Nepal Mandala 1-5 November 1998 (1.5 MB)
author: none - An In Fieri Archive of Visual Anthropology in the Himalayas (1.5 MB)
author: Valerio Calisse and Martino Nicoletti - Along the Sacred River: The Bagmati in the Valley of Kathmandu-Nepal (Lungo il Fiume sacro-la Bagmati della valle di Kathmandu-Nepal) (1.5 MB)
author: none - Pa-wo: A Tibetan Oracular Ritual (Pa-wo:un rituale oracolare tibetano) (1.5 MB)
author: none - Sanu Kancha: Trance, Music, and Dance in Nepal (Sanu Kancha: trance, musica e danza in Nepal) (1.5 MB)
author: none - Himalayan Panels at the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (Edinburgh, Scotland, 6th-9th September 2000) (1.5 MB)
author: Michael Hutt - Resistance and the State in Nepal (1.5 MB)
author: David Gellner - Bhutan:Socio-Cultural Parameters and Changing Times (1.5 MB)
author: Franҫoise Pommaret - Hermann Berger: Die Burushaski-Sparche von Hunza und Nager (438 kb)
author: Hermann Kreutzmann - Véronique Bouillier: Ascètes et Rois: Un monastère de kanphata Yogis au Népal (586 kb)
author: Philippe Ramirez - Graham E. Clarke (ed.): Development, Society and Environment in Tibet: Papers Presented at a Panel on the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (881 kb)
author: Perdita Pohle - David N.Gellner and Declan Quigley (eds.): Constested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste Among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (852 kb)
author: Martin Gaenszle - Michael Hutt and Abhi Subedi: Teach Yourself Nepali (504 kb)
author: Marie-Christine Cabaud - Martin Sökefeld: Ein labyrinth con Identitäten in Nordparkistan: Zwischen Landbesitz, Religion und Kaschmir-Konflikt (496 kb)
author: Hiltrud Herbers - Pallav Ranjan: Swasthani (778 kb)
author: Michael Hutt - Notes on Contributors (233 kb)
- Full Download (15 MB)
- Cover, contents (221 kb)
- Graham Clarke: An Appreciation (422 kb)
author: Ben Campbell - Innovations in Traditional Crafts: Nager and Hunza in the 20th Century (2.2 MB)
author: Jurgen Wasim Frembgen - Work and Nutrition in High Asia: Theoretical Framework, Methods and Main Results of a Comprehensive Study on the Production-Reproduction-System in Northern Pakistan (1.6 MB)
author: Hiltrud Herbers - The Historic Cities Support Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Completes the Restoration of Baltit Fort (647 kb)
author: Stefano Bianca - Seasonal Migration in Western Nepal (Jumla) (1.3 MB)
author: Satya Shrestha - On Francis Buchanan Hamilton's Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (3.5 MB)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Annie-Marie Blondeau and Ernst Steinkellner (Eds.): Reflections of the Mountain: Essays on the History and Social Meaning of the Mountain Cult in Tibet and the Himalya (823 kb)
author: András Höfer - András Höfer: Tamang Ritual Texts II, Ethnographic Studies in the Oral Tradition and Folk-Religion of an Ethnic Minority (815 kb)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Ulrike Müller-Böker: Die Tharu in Chitawan: Kenntnis, Bewertung und Nutzung der natürlichen Umwelt im südlichen Nepal (500 kb)
author: Ben Campbell - Isabelle Sacareau: Porteurs de l'Himalaya. Le trekking au Népal (266 kb)
author: Monique Fort - Recent Research on Ladakh 4-5 and 6 (471 kb)
author: Isabelle Riaboff - Credit Systems and Urban Development in Nepal (434 kb)
author: Michael Mühlich - International Assoiciation for Ladakh Studies, 8th Colloquium, June 5-8, Moesgaard,Denmark (487 kb)
author: Pascale Dollfus - The Lhasa valley, Meudon, November 27-29th 1997 (557 kb)
author: Heather Stoddard - Traditionelle Opposition: Individualität und Weltbild der Sherpa (553 kb)
author: Michael Mühlich - Futterbäume in Nepal. Räumliche Verteilung und Stellenwert in kleinbäuerlichen Betriben (770 kb)
author: Michael Kollmair - Cité des dieux, ville des hommes: organisations spatiales, morphologies urbaines et correspondances sociales à Katmandou - Népal (500 kb)
author: Annick Hollé - 'We are Warp and Weft': Nomadic Pastorialism and the Tradition of Weaving in Rupshu (Eastern Ladakh) (254 kb)
author: Monisha Ahmed - Our Communalised Future. Sustainable Development, Social Identification and Politics of Representation in Ladakh (504 kb)
author: Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen - Le Roi et le Moine. Figures et principes du pouvoir et de sa légitimation au Zanskar (Himalaya occidental) (258 kb)
author: Isabelle Riaboff - Identity Fetishism and the Art of Representation. The Long Struggle for Regional Autonomy in Ladakh (369 kb)
author: Martijn van Beek - Colloquium: 'Sacred Landscape of the Tibetan Himalaya', May 25-27, 1998, Heidelberg (283 kb)
author: Martine Mazaudon and Martin Gaenzle - First Workshop of the Himalayan Studies Network, Meudon 1998. Representation of the Self and Representation of the Other in the Himalayas: Space, History, Culture (283 kb)
author: Pascale Dollfus and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Notes on Contributors (692 kb)
- Full Download (9.1 MB)
- Cover, contents (242 kb)
- Editorial (9.1 MB)
- Abortion and Rape in Nepal- A Legal Assessment (1.3 MB)
author: Shanta Thapalia - The Play of the Sheep (1.2 MB)
author: Christian Schicklgruber - Transport Geography of Nepal (703 MB)
author: Michael Griesbaum - András Höfer: A Recitation of the Tamang Shaman in Nepal (1.9 MB)
author: Brigitte Steinmann - A Brief Reply to Brigitte Steinmann's Review of A Recitation of the Tamang Shaman in Nepal (528 kb)
author: András Höfer - Lionel Caplan: Warrior Gentlemen: 'Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination (745 kb)
author: Harka Gurung - Conservation of the Nepalese Heritage: State of the Art (274 kb)
author: Ridhi Pradhan - The Jhikhu Khola Watershed Project (815 kb)
author: P.B. Shah and H. Schreier - Third International Hindukush Cultural Conference, Chitral (Pakistan), 26-30 August 1995 (885 kb)
author: Hermann Kreutzmann - The Seventh Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies (569 kb)
author: Isabelle Riaboff - The Seventh Colloquium of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (569 kb)
author: Isabelle Riaboff - Art Exhibition and Symposium, Bonn, Germany: Wisdom and Compassion, The Sacred Art of Tibet (569 kb)
author: none - International Symposium: 'Mythos Tibet' (569 kb)
author: none - Pilgrimage in Tibet (569 kb)
author: none - International Seminar at Tabo (Spiti) 27th June - 1st July 1996 (569 kb)
author: none - Patrons et Clients: étude des relations politiques dans l'ancien royaume indo-népalais d'Argha (Népal central) (352 kb)
author: Philippe Ramirez - Guides, Porteurs et Agences de Trekking du Népal. Etude géographique du tourisme himalayen et de sa dynamique socio-spatiale (352 kb)
author: Isabelle Sacareau - Notes on Contributors (401 kb)