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Spring 2003
EBHR
EUROPEAN BULLETIN
OF HIMALAYAN RESEARCH
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 a product of collaboration and edited on a rotating basis between France (CNRS), Germany (South Asia Institute) and the UK (SOAS). Since October 2002 onwards, the German editorship has been run as a collective, presently including William S. Sax (managing editor), Martin Gaenszle, Elvira Graner, András Höfer, Axel Michaels, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Mona Schrempf and Claus Peter Zoller.
We take the Himalayas to mean, the Karakorum, Hindukush, Ladakh, southern Tibet, Kashmir, north-west India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and north-east India.
The subjects we cover range from geography and economics to anthropology, sociology, philology, history, art history, and history of religions. In addition to scholarly articles, we publish book reviews, reports on research projects, information on Himalayan archives, news of forthcoming conferences, and funding opportunities. Manuscripts submitted are subject to a process of peer- review.
Address for correspondence and submissions:
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, c/o Dept. of Anthropology South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 D-69120 Heidelberg / Germany
e-mail: [email protected]; fax: (+49) 6221 54 8898 For subscription details (and downloadable subscription forms), see our website: http://ebhr.sai.uni-heidelberg.de
or contact by e-mail: [email protected] Contributing editors:
France:
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Pascale Dollfus, Anne de Sales Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 299 7, rue Guy Môquet 94801 Villejuif cedex France e-mail: [email protected]
Great Britain:
Michael Hutt, David Gellner, Ben Campbell School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG U.K.
e-mail: [email protected] Netherlands:
Mark Turin
Himalayan Languages Project, Silodam 355 1013 AW Amsterdam Netherlands
e-mail: [email protected]
EBHR 24 Spring 2003
ARTICLES
Remarks on Revolutionary Songs and Iconography Anne de Sales
5
The Social Context of Nature Conservation in Nepal
Michael Kollmair, Ulrike Müller-Böker and Reto Soliva
25
Ḍhol Sāgar: Aspects of Drum Knowledge amongst Musicians in Garhwal, North India
Andrew Alter
63
CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
Conference Report on The Agenda of Transformation:
Inclusion in Nepali Democracy, Kathmandu, 24-26 April 2003
Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin
78
Report on the Conference Nepal — Current State of Research and Perspectives held in memory of Prof. Bernhard Kölver in June 2003 in Leipzig
Alexander von Rospatt
80
Research Report: Labour Migration from Far West Nepal to Delhi, India
Susan Thieme, Michael Kollmair, Ulrike Müller-Böker
82
The Categories of Nature and Culture in the Himalayas. A workshop organized by M. Lecomte-Tilouine
90
CNAS Alumni of Foreign Scholars 92
BOOK REVIEWS
On the Languages of the Himalayas and their Links (nearly) around the World.
Review Article by Roland Bielmeier
94
Janet Rizvi: Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant princes and peasant traders in Ladakh
Nicky Grist
117
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)
Karl-Heinz Krämer
120
P.M. Blaikie & S. Z. Sadeque: Policy in High Places.
Environment and development in the Himalayan region Ulrike Müller-Böker
123
Gisèle Krauskopff & Pamela Deuel Meyer (eds.): The Kings of Nepal & the Tharu of the Tarai
Nutandhar Sharma
126
William F. Fisher: Fluid Boundaries: Forming and transforming identity in Nepal
Sara Shneiderman
129
Martin Gaenszle: Ancestral Voices: Oral ritual texts and their social contexts among the Mewahang Rai of east Nepal
Mark Turin
132
