Author: Macdonald, Alexander W.
Title: Essays on the Ethnology of Nepal and South Asia: I
Description: Kathmandu, Ratna Pustak Bhandar, (1984). orig. boards, dustwrapper.. 24x18cm, ix, 317 pp, Series: Bibliotheca Himalayica, III, Volume 3.. Some rubbing,stains & scratches to binding. Good. ¶ Volume I only. Contents: On Prajapati; A Note on Tibetan Megaliths; Juggernaut Reconstructed; Some Observations on Ritual Hunts in North-East and Central India; The Concept of Sambhogakaya in the Light of Some Ethnographic Data; Notes on the Cloistering of Villages in South-East Asia;The Application of a South-East Asia Centric Concept of History to Mainland South-East Asia; The Healer in the Nepalese World; The Tamang as Seen by One of Themselves; An Aspect of the Songs of the Gaine of Nepal; Remarks on Nepali Sung Verse; Notes on Two Festivals Among the Tharu of Dang; The Hierarchy of the Lower Jat in the Muluki Ain of 1955; Nepalese Notes: The Janaipurnima & the Gosaikunda.

Keywords: Nepal, Nepal South Asia, India Ethnography, Ethnology Social, History of Religion, Sociology Ethnic, Ethnomusicology, Music Musicology, Oral Literature, Anthropology