Spring 2002 22
EUROPEAN BULLETIN
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ARTiCLES
NGOs as IheklIdlIrs or sevaks? Identity crisis io Nepal's 000-
governmental sector Celayne Heaton Shrestha
The Maoagement of Natural Resource Conniet: Case studies from Nepal
Bishnu Raj Upreti
The Life History of a Jad Woman of the Garbwal Himalayas Subhadr. Channa
An.ci~nt Dialog~e Amidst a Modern Caeopbony: Gurung religIous pluralism and the (ounding of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries iD the Pokha ra valley
Ben Tamblyn
CORRESPONDENCE AND ANNOUNCEMENT Gurkha crossfire
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REVIEWS
Manjushree Thapa The Tutor of History and Samrat Upadhyay Arresting God in Kathmandu
Sarah Le Vine
Tomek Lehnert Rogues in Robes: An inside chronicle of a recent Chinese-Tibetan intrigue in the Karma Kagyu lineage of Diamond Way Buddhism
David N. Gellner
Gyurme Dorje Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated manuscripts from the White Beryl ofSangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho wirh rhe Moonbeams treatise of Lo-chen DharmaSri
Martin Boord
Vasant K. Saberwal Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, bureaucrats. and conservation in the western Hima/aya
Ben Campbell
Karl-Heinz Kriimer Erhnizi/(i/ und Nationale fmegration in Nepal:
Eine Unrersuchung zur Palili.ierung der Ethnischen Gruppen illl Modernen Nepali
David N. Gellner
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Contributors
Subhadra Mitra Channa is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Delhi. Her PhD fieldwork on Dhobis in Delhi was published as Tradition and Rationality in Economic Behaviour (1985, Cosmo Publications, Delhi).
She has also done fieldwork in Rajasthan, Haryana, and Garhwal in northern India with a particular emphasis on political aspects of caste relationships, the position of low castes, and gender relations. Of late she has been interested in studying a community's relationship to its environment from a cognitive perspective. She was the President of the Indian Anthropological Association 1997-2000.
Sarab LeVine is an anthropologist in Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her books include Mothers and Wives: Gusii women of East Africa (Univ. of Cbicago Press, 1979) and Dolor Y Alegria: Women and social change 111 urban Mexico (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1993). Since 1996 she has been researcbing the impact of maternal schooling on child and reproductive health, and (with David Gellner) Buddhism revivalism. in the Kathmandu Valley. Her pseudonymous novels include Narives and Strangers (Houghton Mifllin, 1985), set in East Africa.
CelaYDe HeatoD Shrestha received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, in 2002, for research on NGOs in Nepal.
Currently she works as a research fellow on a multidisciplinary project at Kingston University exploring the use of information and communication technology for widening participation in higher education.
Ben Tamblyn completed his BSc in social anthropology and sociology (first
~Iass) in the Department of Human Sciences, Brunei University, west London, tn 2001. In 2001-2 he held an ESRC quota award to do the MSc in Medical Anthropology, also at Brunei; for his MSc dissertation, he carried out fieldwork amongst the development community in Kathmandu.