Author: Macdonald, Alexander
Title: Essays on the Ethnology of Nepal and South Asia, Volume II.
Description: Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1987. orig. boards. 24x17cm, (4),147 pp.. Some rubbing. Binding corner bumps. Good+. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Lama & the General; Sociology & Anthropology in Nepal; Peliminary Notes on Some jhakri of the Muglan; The Writing of Buddhist History in the Sherpa Area of Nepal; The Coming of Buddhism to the Sherpa Area of Nepal; Creative Dismemberment Among the Tamang & Sherpas of Nepal; The Autobiography of a 20th Century Rnyin-ma-pa Lama; A Little-read Guide to the Holy Places of Nepal: Part II; Religion in Tibet at the Time of Srong-btsan Sgam-po.

Keywords: Nepal, Ethnography, South Asia, History of Religion, Buddhism, Buddhist, Sherpa Ethnography, Tamang Sociology, Ethnology Sherpas, Himalayan