EUROPEAN BULLETIN
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HIMALA Y AN RESEARCH
Number 14, 1998
CNRS, Paris SOAS. London
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EUROPEAN BULLETIN OF HIMALAYAN RESEARCH Number I4 1998
CONTENTS
GRAHAM CLARKE : AN ApPRECIATION by Ben Campbell
INNOVATIONS IN TRADrrlONAL CRAFTS: NAGER AND HUNZA IN THE 20TH CENTURY: Jurgen Wasim Frembgen
WORK AND NUTRrrtON IN HIGH ASIA: Hiltrud Herbers THE RESTORATION OF BALTrT' FORT: Stefano Bianca SEASONAL MIGRATION IN WESJERN NEPAL: Satya Shrestha
ON FRANCIS BUCHANAN HAMILTON'S ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF NEPAL : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
BOOK REVIEWS
A.-M. Blondeau & E. Steinkellner, eds., Reflections of the Mountain,
3
18 3135 46
by Andnis HOfer 76
Andrns HOfer, Tamang Ritual Texts 11, by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine 82 U1rike Muller-BlSker. Die Tharu in Chitawan, by Ben Campbell 88 Isabelle Sacareau, Porteurs de I'Himalaya, by Monique Fort 92 Recent Research on Ladakh 4 - 5, and 6, by Isabelle Riaboff 94
PROJECT
Credit Systems and Urban Development in Nepal, by Michael Milhlich 97
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Ladakh Studies, 8th Colloquium, Moesgaard, June 1997
by Pascale Dollfus 99
The Lhasa Valley, Meudon, November 1997. by Heather Stoddard 101
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS 103
NEWS 115
IIIltfAI.AYAN ELECTRONIC DIARY 117
