SusseJ a nd has conducted Cieldwork in the Helambu reH io n

Contribu tora to tbi. Inue

Richard Burlb.r t is ProCeuor

Eth- nololY at the SUduien-lnSlilu t. Unlver- sita! Heldelberl. He has recenll y com- pleted a study 01 the Maithili lanluage in the Nepalese Tarai .nd is currently working on the chanilnl relationship between lUte and society in NepaL Grabam CI.rke IS • social anthropolo- gin and development consultant based at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Of Cord. He wu previously Illached to the Inst itu te Cor Development St udies.

SusseJ a nd has conducted Cieldwork in the Helambu reH io n

Fr.nz-"'r! Bhrb.rd is a Tibetologist.

current ly serv ing IS Director oC the Nepa l-German manuscripl Preserva - tion Project in Kathmandu. He has pub - lished on BUddhist phi losophy and religion. A recent paper oC his dea ls wit h the histor y oC the Slupa of Bodhnu. h ( Ancient Nepal. 120/ 1990).

M. rtin GUDszle is wissenscha.(Uicher ... nt:estellter :t the SUdll5ien-lnstit!.H.

Universita t Heidelberl and Director oC the Institute's branch office in Kath - mandu. His mon08raph on kinship and mylh amoni the Mewahang Raj was published last year by Steiner Verlag , Wiesbaden. Hi s current research IS on R •. i ritual tellS and oral trad ition.

CorneiUe Jest IS doyen of IlIm alayan stUdies, specialising in the anthropology of the Tibetan - speaking population groups and the humin ecoloiY or the Nepal Hlmalaya. His monogra ph Do/po, comm unaufes de IIJngue libetIJine du Nepal, came oul in 1975. He was Direc - tor or the Centre d 'Etudes Him alayennes and the "GRECO Hi malaya -Ka r akorum "

project oC the Centre National de la Recherche ScientiCique in Paris, At pre - se nt he is a([lliued wit h the Equlpe de Recherche

Societe. Culture en

"

Himalaya~.

AI.n Madarl.ne was recent I \' appoi nted to a personal Chair

Blstorl cal Anthropology at the University Cam - bridge. He has published Widely on The Gurwags and on medlevel English hiS- tory. He is author ^of the monOlraph (Resources .nd Populllllon, 1976) and papers on the Guruna of Nepal .4 GUI de 10 {be Gurunls, ",hlch he

"'lIh Indrabahadur Gurung, came o ut In 1990.

U1rik e MOller- Boker is a geographer and aCriliated with the Geographlsches In$litut of Giessen University .

lists several publications on land utilization.

erosion and related matters . Her mono- graph on Newar ru r al se tt lements

the Kathmandu Valley was published

1984 in the "Giessener GeographLsche SchriCten" (Hdt 56), a series or which she is Chier Editor .

Philippe R.mirel recen tl y completed his dissert ation in Ethnol<>aV IS part of the GUlmi and Araha -Khanci interdlScl- pHn:ry Prcgrll.m me

Anne de Sales IS .nthropolOllSt and

member of the Centre National de la

Recherche Scientiflque

lIer

monograph on Northern Magar sha -

manism (Je suu ne de vas Jeuz de lam -

bours.! was pUblished last year by the

Societe d'EtnolOlie (Klinckslecl.;)

The Editors wish to thank Anna Marga -

rete Cole and Bflgitte Merz for their

assiSlance in publishing the Bulletin and

the South Asia Institute tor bearing the

costs oC this issue .