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.
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- Cover, contents (111 kb)
- Editorial (139 kb)
- The Bhārata/Jāgara of Maulā alias Jiyā Rānī as Narrated in Doti (Far Western Nepal) and Uttarakhand (India):Text and context (807 kb)
author: Maheshwar P. Joshi - Publics of Heritage and Domestic Archives Among The Nepali Middle Class (303 kb)
author: Laura Kunreuther - 'From the outside Looking in': Living Besides a People's Liberation Army (PLA) cantonment in far-west Nepal (303 kb)
author: Mathew W. Maycock - Conference on 'Contemporary Tibet: Politics of transformation, identity and resistence' organised by Dibyesh Anana and Tsering Topgyal, London, 28, Feburary 2014 (94 kb)
author: Dibyesh Anandand and Tsering Topgyal - Conference panel on 'New Histories of the Himalaya' organised by Catherine Warner and Sara Shneiderman, Philadelphia, 27-31 March 2014 (139 kb)
author: Arik Moran - Workshop on 'Kiranti Culture in Contemporary Nepal (160 kb)
author: Marion Wettstein - BNAC Nepal Study Day, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, 24-25 April 2014 (111 kb)
author: Krishna Adhikari and Sondra Hausner - L.S. Baral: Autocratic Monarchy: Politics in Panchayat Nepal (188 kb)
author: John Whelpton - Denis Glover, ed.: Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderland, 1880-1950 (119 kb)
author: Alex C. Mckay - Alka Hingorani: Making faces: Self and image creation in a Himalayan valley (156 kb)
author: Ehud Halperin - Tatsuro Fujikura: Discourses of Awareness: Development, social movements and the practices of freedom in Nepal (152 kb)
author: Celayne Heaton-Shreshtha - Judith Pettrigrew: Maoist at the Hearth: Everyday life in Nepal's civil war (143 kb)
author: Lecomte-Tilouine - Ulrich Oberdiek: Die Agravāls in Rajakshetra (Kumaon Himālaya): Lebensstile, Habitus, Ökonomie und ‚Puritanismus’ in einer Händlerkaste (152 kb)
author: Hans Jürgen David - Cathy Cantwell & Robert Mayer: A Noble Noose of Methods, The Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahāyoga Tantra and its commentary (143 kb)
author: Péter-Dániel Szántó - Haai! Haai! Angreji (152 kb)
author: Lakshmi Prasad Devkota - Notes on Contributors (94 kb)
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- Cover, contents (120 kb)
- Editorial (55 kb)
- The Kinship Terminology of the Sangtam Nagas (212 kb)
author: Pascal Bouchery and Lemlila Sangtam - Vote For Prashant Tamang: Representations of an Indian Idol in the Nepali print media and the retreat of multiculturalism (170 kb)
author: Harsha Man Maharjan - ‘Objectionable Contents’: The policing of the Nepali print media during the 1950s (192 kb)
author: Lokranjan Parajuli - Maoist gates in Jumla and Mugu districts: Illustrations of the ‘People’s War’ (872 kb)
author: Satya Shrestha-Schipper - ‘This is How we Joke’. Towards an appreciation of alternative values in performances of gender irony among the Gaddi of Himachal (143 kb)
author: Anja Wagner - Report on the Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 2012 (58 kb)
author: Khem R. Shreesh - Geoffrey Samuel: Introducing Tibetan Buddhism (151 kb)
author: Georgios T. Halkias - Saul Mullard: Opening the Hidden Land: State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History (102 kb)
author: Luke Wagner - Arjun Guneratne: The Tarai: History, Society, Environment (94 kb)
author: Hilary Faxon - Pascale Dollfus: Les Bergers du Fort Noir. Nomades du Ladakh (Himalaya occidental) (117 kb)
author: Françoise Pommaret - Stéphane Gros: La Part manquante. Echanges et pouvoirs chez les Drung du Yunnan (Chine) (79 kb)
author: Françoise Pommaret - Susan Hangen: The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins (123 kb)
author: Amanda Snellinger - Notes on Contributors (51 kb)
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- Cover, contents (229 kb)
- Editorial (82 kb)
- An Unpublished Account of Kinnauri Folklore (274 kb)
author: Sur Das, introduced by Arik Moran - Keeping the Hill Tribes at Bay: A Critique from India's Northeast of James C. Scott's Paradigm of State Evasion (201 kb)
author: Jelle J.P. Wouters - Shaping Secularism in Nepal (696 kb)
author: Chiara Letizia - Time, Identity and Historical Change in the Hills of Nepal (274 kb)
author: Anne de Sales - The Catalogue of the Hodgson Collection in the British Library (406 kb)
author: John Whelpton and Michael Hutt - Report on 'Changing Dynamics of Nepali Society and Polictics' (82 kb)
author: Khem Shreesh - Women, Law and Democracy in Nepal: An Interview with Sapana Pradhan-Malla (209 kb)
author: Gérard Toffin and Shova Shakya - Richard Keith Sprigg (1922-2011) (274 kb)
author: Heleen Plaisier - Michel Georges Francois Peissel (1937-2011) (115 kb)
author: Roger Croston - Daniele Berti and Gilles Tarabout (eds.): Territory, Soil and Society in South Asia (106 kb)
author: David N. Gellner - Hermann Kreutzmann (ed.): Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development and Ecology in the Hunza Valley (86 kb)
author: Davide Torri - Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (ed.): Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia (102 kb)
author: Nayanika Mathur - Martin Moir: Not Exactly Shangri-la (98 kb)
author: Michael Hutt - Nishchal Nath Pandey: New Nepal: The Fault Lines (111 kb)
author: Milly Joshi - Devendra Raj Pandey and Seira Tamang (ed.): Looking at Development and Donors: Essays from Nepal (106 kb)
author: Jeevan Raj Sharma - Gérard Toffin: La Fête Spectale. Théâtre et rite au Népal (143 kb)
author: Arik Moran - Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler (eds.): Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology, and Syntax (262 kb)
author: Nathan W. Hill - Me at the Beginning of Life (106 kb)
author: Jhamak Ghimire - Notes on Contributors (98 kb)
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- Cover, contents (98 kb)
- Editorial (82 kb)
- In Memoriam - Lucette Boulnois (1931-2009) (618 kb)
author: Sushila Manandhar and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Nepalese Migrations: Introduction (143 kb)
author: Tristan Bruslé - Leaving Hills and Plains. Migration and Remittances in Nepal (807 kb)
author: Elvira Graner - International and National Migrations from a Village in Western Nepal: Changes and Impact on Local Life (340 kb)
author: Olivia Aubriot - Migration from Jumla to the Southern Plain (197 kb)
author: Satya Shrestha-Schipper - Migration and Urban Associations: Notes on Social Networks in Pokhara, Nepal (152 kb)
author: Barbara Berardi Tadié - Caught between Two Worlds: Internal Displacement Induced Dilemma in Nepal (950 kb)
author: Anita Ghimire - Social Networks and Migration: Women's Livelihoods Between Far West Nepal and Delhi (139 kb)
author: Susan Thieme and Ulrike Müller-Böker - The “Dream-Trap”: Brokering “Study Abroad” and Nurse Migration from Nepal to the UK (1.1 MB)
author: Radha Adkhikari - Nepali Transmigrants: An Examination of Transnational Ties Among Nepali Immigrants in the United States (180 kb)
author: Bandita Sijapati - Who’s in a Labour Camp? A Socio-Economic Analysis of Nepalese Migrants in Qatar (479 kb)
author: Tristan Bruslé - Notes on Contributors (86 kb)
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- Cover, contents (70 kb)
- Editorial (53 kb)
- A Tribute to Dr. Karen Lundström-Baudais: Paleoethnobontanist, Ethnographer and Western Nepal Specialist (111 kb)
author: Andrea Nightingale and Dominique Baudais - Discovering Boro-Garo. History of an Analytical and Descriptive Linguistic Category (963 kb)
author: François Jacquesson - Matriliny, Reproductive Health, and Reproductive Rights. An Essay on the Khasis of Meghalaya, Northeast India (111 kb)
author: Tanka B. Subba - The Notion of Virginity in South Asia and its Impact on Religious Practices and Oral Literature (958 kb)
author: Emilie Arrago-Boruah - Plight of the igus: Notes on Shamanism Among the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh, India (909 kb)
author: Sarit K. Chaudhuri - The Kinship Terminology of the Rongmei Nagas (209 kb)
author: Pascal Bouchery and Kiudamliu Gangmei - Tourism Development in Northeast India: Changing Recreational Demand, Developmental Challenges and Issues Associated with Sustainability (233 kb)
author: Prasanta Bhattacharya - Correspondence, Announcements, Reports (57 kb)
author: none - Peter J. Marczell: Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (86 kb)
author: John Bray - Notes on Contributors (57 kb)
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- Cover, contents (176 kb)
- Editorial (94 kb)
- Agency and Resistance in the Thangmi-Newar Ritual Relationship:An Analysis of Devikot-Khadga Jatra in Dolakha, Nepal (2.7 MB)
author: Sara Shneiderman - Ethnonymy in a Multiethnic Context: A Note on Kinnaur (737 kb)
author: Isabelle Riaboff - Staying in Place: The Social Actions of Hindu Yoginīs (197 kb)
author: Sondra L. Hausner - The 'Descent of the Pandavas': Ritual and Cosmology of the Jads of Garhwal (217 kb)
author: Subhadra Mitra Channa - The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project(CPDP) (197 kb)
author: Martin Gaenszle, Balthasar Bickel, Goma Banjade, et al. - Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Pascale Dollfus (eds.): Ethnic Revival and Religious Turmoil: Identities and Representations in the Himalayas (111 kb)
author: Sara Shneiderman - Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung (ed.): Arbeiten aus Nepal. Erwin Schneider zum Gedächtnis (127 kb)
author: Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt - Deepak Thapa with Bandita Sijapati: A Kingdom under Siege: Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, 1996 to 2003 (135 kb)
author: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka - Manjushree Thapa: Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (119 kb)
author: Elvira Graner - Notes on Contributors (90 kb)
- Full Download (2 MB)
- Cover, contents (180 kb)
- Editorial (94 kb)
- Remarks on Revolutionary Songs and Iconograhy (1.2 MB)
author: Anne de Sales - The Social Context of Nature Conservation in Nepal (565 kb)
author: Michael Kollmair, Ulrike Müller-Böker and Reto Soliva - Ḍhol Sāgar: Aspects of Drum Knowledge amongst Musicians in Garhwal, North India (238 kb)
author: Andrew Alter - Conference Report on the Agenda of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy, Kathmandu, 24-26 April 2003 (156 kb)
author: Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin - Report on the Conference Nepal - Current State of Research and Perspectives Held in Memory of Prof. Bernhard Kölver in June 2003 in Leipzig (184 kb)
author: Alexander von Rospatt - Research Report: Labour Migration from Far West Nepal to Delhi, India (164 kb)
author: Susan Thieme, Michael Kollmair and Ulrike Müller-Böker - The Categories of Naure and Cuture in the Himalayas: A workshop organized by M. Lecomte-Tilouine (123 kb)
author: M.Lecomte-Tilouine - CNAS Alumni of Foreign Scholars (119 kb)
author: none - On the Languages of the Himalayas and their Links (nearly) around the World (283 kb)
author: Roland Bielmeier - Janet Rizvi: Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh (156 kb)
author: Nicky Grist - Krishna Hachhethu: Party Building in Nepal: Organization, Leadership, and People. A Comparative Study of the Nepali Congress and the Communist party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (156 kb)
author: Karl-Heinz Krämer - P.M. Blaikie & S.Z. Sadeque (eds.): Policy in High Places: Environment and Development in the Himalayan Region (115 kb)
author: Ulrike Müller-Böker - Gisele Krauskopff & Pamela Deuel Meyer (eds.): The Kings of Nepal & the Tharu of the Tarai (180 kb)
author: Nutandhar Sharma - William F. Fisher: Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal (156 kb)
author: Sara Shneiderman - Martin Gaenszle: Ancestral Voices: Oral Ritual Texts and their Social Contexts Among the Mewahang Rai o East Nepal (197 kb)
author: Mark Turin - Notes on Contributors (70 kb)
- Full Download (21 MB)
- Cover, contents (528 kb)
- NGOs as thekādārs or sevaks? Identity crisis in Nepal's non-governmental sector (6 MB)
author: Celayne Heaton Shrestha - The Management of Natural Resource Conflict: Case Studies from Nepal (4.6 MB)
author: Bishnu Raj Upreti - The Life History of a Jad Woman of the Garhwal Himalayas (3.7 MB)
author: Subhadra Channa - Ancient Dialogue Amidst a Modern Cacophony: Gurung Religious Pluralism and the Founding of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in the Pokhara Valley (3.7 MB)
author: Ben Tamblyn - Gurkha Crossfire (762 kb)
author: John Cross and Judith Pettigrew - Nature and Culture in the Himalayas: A workshop planned for February 2004 (762 kb)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Manjushree Thapa: The Tutor of History and Samrat Upadhyay: Arresting God in Kathmandu (795 kb)
author: Sarah LeVine - Tomek Lehnert: Rogues in Robes: An Inside Chronicle of a Recent Chinese-Tibetan Intrigue in the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Diamond Way Buddhism (393 kb)
author: David N. Gellner - Gyurme Dorje: Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscripts from the White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho with the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-chen DharmaSri (1.1 MB)
author: Martin Boord - Vasant K. Saberwal: Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya (717 kb)
author: Ben Campbell - Karl-Heinz Krämer: Ethnizität und Nationale Integration in Nepal: Eine Untersuchung zur Politisierung der Ethnischen Gruppen im Modernen Nepal (795 kb)
author: David N.Gellner - Notes on Contributors (483 kb)
- Full Download (20.2 MB)
- Cover, contents (384 kb)
- Below the Surface of Private Property: Individual Rights, Common Property, and the Nepalese Kipat System in Historical Perspective (3.2 MB)
author: Werner M. Egli - Muslim Mobilization and the States in Nepal, 1951-95 (3.3 MB)
author: Mollica Dastider - Ethnic Categories and their Usages in Byans, Far Western Nepal (4.2 MB)
author: Katsuo Nawa - On the Complexity of Oral Tradition: A reply to Claus Peter Zoller's Review Essay 'Oral Epic Poetry in the Central Himalayas' (3.9 MB)
author: John Leavitt - Sakyadhita Conference in Lumbini (406 kb)
author: David N.Gellner and Sarah LeVine - Britain-Nepal Academic Council formed in London (1.4 MB)
author: Surya Subedi - Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts by Gregory G. Maskarinec (1.7 MB)
author: András Höfer - Giséle Krauskopff and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (eds.): Célébrer le Pouvoir: Dasai, uneféte royale au Népal (1.7 MB)
author: András Höfer - Mary Cameron: On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal (778 kb)
author: Ben Campbell - Michael Vinding: The Thakali: A Himalayan Ethnography (1.2 MB)
author: Mark Turin - Hugo E. Kreiger: Kathmandu Valley Painting- The Jucker Collection (881 kb)
author: Julia A.B. Hegewald - Robert Powell and Roberto Vitali: Earth.Door.Sky.Door:Painyings of Mustang (778 kb)
author: Clare Harris - Notes on Contributors (430 kb)
- Full Download (34.3 MB)
- Cover, contents (664 kb)
- Introduction (504 kb)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - A Letter to the Editors (1 MB)
author: Niels Gutschow - Corneille Jest, Ethnologist and Photographer (1.1 MB)
author: P. Dollfus, J.-D. Lajoux, M. Leomte-Tilouine, G. Toffin - Corneille Jest's Works Including Photos (565 MB)
author: Pierrette Massonnet - Sarki Man's Recollections of Corneille Jest as Recounted to Bernadette Vasseux (311 kb)
author: Bernadette Vasseux - Traditional Dinner Set of the Newar (188 kb)
author: Sushila Manandhar - Acrobatics and Stilts in Old Kathmandu City (397 kb)
author: Gérard Toffin - Memories of the Gaine (393 kb)
author: Mireille Helffer - Salut l'Artiste! On Musical Teaching (299 kb)
author: Franck Bernede - The Buddha of Bangemura Tol (246 kb)
author: Gilles Beguin - Mao as a Muse (225 kb)
author: Philippe Ramirez - The King, the Drongo and Goma (430 kb)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - The Timekeeper (315 kb)
author: Olivia Aubroit - The Hat and the Hunt (385 kb)
author: Gisele Krauskopff - Souvenirs from the Field (979 kb)
author: Andrew Manzardo - Horse Trading in Tibet, Nepal and India (1956-1959) (324 kb)
author: Philippe Sagant - Nepalese Traders in Lhasa (557 kb)
author: Lucette Boulnois - The World in a Bowl of Urine (848 kb)
author: Fernand Meyer - The Route to Hell (328 kb)
author: Katia Buffetrille - The Epic of a Photograph (336 kb)
author: Pascale Dollfus - The Origin of Our Belief:How the Ismailiya Came to Ghojal in Hunza (557 kb)
author: Hermann Kreutzmann - 'A Journey Towards Palpa', 1922-1932/1997 (3.1 MB)
author: Joelle Smadja - The Use of Diachronic Set of Photographs in Geomorphology (1.4 MB)
author: Monique Fort - Orthophoto Time Series for Environmental Studies in the Kathmandu Valley (1.4 MB)
author: Robert Kostka and Viktor Kaufmann - Photographic Consumption in Kathmandu, c.1863-1960 (3.7 MB)
author: Pratyoush Onta - Some Notes on the Introductions of Photography in Nepal (684 kb)
author: Krishna Rimal - The Sannyasi Monasteries of Patan: A Brief Survey (2.5 MB)
author: Véronique Bouillier - Simarekha, A Historial Borderline? (3 MB)
author: Anne De Sales - Chickenshit & Ash - A Visit to Paradise (885 kb)
author: Gabriele Tautscher - A. Proksch (ed.): Images of a Century: The Changing Townscapes of the Kathmandu Valley (373 kb)
author: David N. Gellner - S. von der Heide (ed.): Changing Faces of Nepal (307 kb)
author: Gérard Toffin - Reflected Pictures, Vistual Anthropology of Nepal at the Voelkerkundemuseum in Zuerich (4.2 MB)
author: Majan Garlinski - Photographic Archives in Paris and London (1.4 MB)
author: Pascale Dollfuss - Dissertation Abstract: An Economy of Merit: Women and Buddhist Monasticism in Zangskar, Northwest India (397 kb)
author: Kim Gutschow - Conference Report: Representation of the Self and Representation of the Other in the Himalayas: Space, History, Culture. Meudon, CNRS, 25-26 September 1998 (397 kb)
author: Pascale Dollfus and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Notes on Contributors (168 kb)
- Back cover (37 kb)
- Full Download (11.5 MB)
- Cover, contents (249 kb)
- Editorial (108 kb)
- Women and Politics in Nepal: Small Actors, Big Issue (1.6 MB)
author: Stéphanie Tawa Lama - Floods in Bangladesh in the Framework of Highland-Lowland Interactions: Six Years After the Himalayan Dilemma (1.5 MB)
author: Thomas Hofer and Rolf Weingartner - The Ups and Downs of an Intellectual Pursuit: Towards a History of the Historical Journal Pürnimä (1.3 MB)
author: Mahes Raj Pant - From Literature to Linguistics to Culture: An Interview with K. P. Malla (1.9 MB)
author: David N. Gellner - Notes on Some Studies of Himalayan Households (1.6 MB)
author: Ben Campbell - Gregory G. Maskarinec: The Rulings of the Night. An Ethnogaphy of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts (642 kb)
author: Anne de Sales - Diana K. Myers and Susan S. Bean (eds.): From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan (350 kb)
author: Ann Hecht - Susi Dunsmore: Nepalese Textiles (359 kb)
author: Ann Hecht - Update of Himalayan Archives in Paris (EBHR 3 and 4) (585 kb)
author: Lucette Boulnois, Jenny Ferreux, and Pierrette Massonnet - The Organisation of Space and the Symbolism of the Indo-Nepalese House in Central Nepal: Preliminary Observations During Fieldwork (460 kb)
author: Gil Daryn - Mythos Tibet, Bonn,10-12 May 1996 (729 kb)
author: Bettina Zeisler - Pilgrimage in Tibet, Leiden, 12-13 September 1996 (439 kb)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Eau, miroir des tensions. Ethno-histoire d'un système d'irrigation dans les moyennes montagnes du Népal Central (1.1 MB)
author: Olivia Aubriot - Les Hani. Introduction à létude d'une population tibéto-birmane du Yunnan en relation avec la Chine (1.1 MB)
author: Pascall Bouchery - Montagnes sacrées, lacs et grottes, lieux de pèlerinage dans le monde tibétain. Traditions écrites et réalités vivantes (1.1 MB)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Bhoutan. Politique étrangère et identité culturelle: Une stratégie pour survivre (201 kb)
author: Thierry Mathou - Notes on Contributors (201 kb)