20-1 2001 Double issue EBHR european Bulletin of Himalayan Research The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research is the product of collaboration between academics and researchers with an interest in the Himalayan region in several European countries. It was founded by the late Professor Richard Burghart in 1991 and has appeared twice yearly ever since. It is edited on a rotating basis between Germany, France and the UK. The British editors are: Michael Hutt (Managing Editor), David Gellner, Will Douglas, Ben Campbell (Reviews Editor), Christian McDonaugh, Joanne Moller, Maria Phylactou, Andrew Russell and Surya Subedi. Email: [email protected] Contributing editors are: France: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Pascale Dolfus, Anne de Sales Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 299 7, rue Guy Moquet F-94801 Villejuif cedex email: [email protected] Germany: Martin Gaenszle, Andras Höfer Südasien Institut Universität Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 D-69120 Heidelberg email: [email protected] Switzerland: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität Zurich Freienstraße 5 CH-8032 Zurich email: [email protected] For subscription information, please consult the EBHR website at dakini.orient.ox.ac.uk/ebhr or contact the publishers directly: Publications Office School of Oriental and African Studies Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Fax: +44 (0) 20 7962 1577 email: [email protected] ebhr SOAS • London CNRS • Paris SAI • HEIdelberg ISSN 0943 8254 EBHR 20-1 • 2001 Double issue ARTICLES Life-Journeys: Rai ritual healers’ narratives on their callings Martin Gaenszle 9 The Construction of Personhood: Two life stories from Garhwal Antje Linkenbach 23 Protecting the Treasures of the Earth: Nominating Dolpo as a World Heritage site Terence Hay-Edie 46 On the Relationship Between Folk and Classical Traditions in South Asia Claus Peter Zoller 77 Sliding Downhill: Some reflections on thirty years of change in a Himalayan village Alan Macfarlane 105 — with responses from Ben Campbell, Kul B. Luintel, Ernestine McHugh and David Seddon. Observations During the State-of-Emergency: Nepal December 2001 Judith Pettigrew 125 Announcements and Conference Reports 133 Obituary: Bert van den Hoek 151 Japanese Studies on Nepal and the Himalayas (Social Studies and Humanities: 1900-2000) Hiroshi Ishii 165 Translating a Life: B.P. Koirala’s Atmabrittanta Rhoderick Chalmers 209 BOOK REVIEWS McKay, Alex, ed. Pilgrimage in Tibet Maria Phylactou 218 van Beek, Martijn, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen and Poul Pedersen, eds. Ladakh: Culture, history and development between Himalaya and Karakoram Maria Phylactou 221 Blondeau, Anne-Marie. Tibetan Mountain Deities: Their cults and representation. Martin Gaenszle 223 Joshi, Maheshwar P., Allan C. Fanger and Charles W. Brown, eds. Himalaya: Past and Present, Vol. IV 1993-94 Daniela Berti 228 Kreutzmann, Hermann, ed. Sharing Water: Irrigation and water management in the Hindu Kush–Karakorum–Himalaya Linden Vincent 232 Wangdu, Pasang and Hildegard Diemberger. dBa’ bzhed. The Royal Narrative Concerning the Bringing of the Buddha’s Doctrine to Tibet: Translation and facsimile edition of the Tibetan text. Rudolf Kaschewsky 237 Gyalbo, Tsering, Guntram Hazod and Per Sørensen. Civilisation at the Foot of Mount Sham-po: The Royal House of lHa Bug-pa-can and the History of g.Ya’-bzang. Historical texts from the monastery of g.Ya’-bzang in Yar-stod (Central Tibet). Rudolf Kaschewsky 239 Lewis, Todd T. Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and rituals of Newar Buddhism. Will Douglas 241 Kapstein, Matthew. The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, contestation and memory. Martin Boord 243 5 Contributors Ben Campbell is a temporary lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Man- chester. His publications include ‘Conversing with Nature: Ecological symbolism in central Nepal’ (Worldviews 2: 1, 1998) and ‘Animals Behaving Badly: Indigenous per- ceptions of wildlife protection in Nepal’ in Natural Enemies: People-wildlife conflict in anthropological perspective, edited by J. Knight (2000). He is currently working on an ethnography of environmental protection in a Tamang-speaking community, enti- tled Living Between Juniper and Palm. Roderick Chalmers is a research student in the Department of the Languages and Cul- tures of South Asia at SOAS, currently working on a PhD thesis on the emergence of a public sphere among Nepalis in India, under the supervision of Michael Hutt. Martin Gaenszle is affiliated with the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg and teaches ethnology at Heidelberg University. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on social processes, ethnic identity, religion, and oral traditions in eastern Nepal since 1984 and is presently working on the Nepali community in Benares, India. His latest books include Himalayan Space: Cultural horizons and practices, co-edited with Balthasar Bickel (Zurich, 1999), and Origins and Migrations: Kinship, mythology and ethnic identity among the Mewahang Rai of east Nepal (Kathmandu, 2000). Terence Hay-Edie is a Research Associate at the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge. He completed his doctorate in 2000 on the activi- ties of the World Heritage Convention in Nepal, conducting fieldwork in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, and on the monuments of the Kathmandu Valley and the proposed nomination of Shey Phoksumdo National Park. Hiroshi Ishii is Professor in the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His principal field research has been in the Kathmandu Valley, the lower hill areas and the Tarai in Nepal, and has dealt mainly with rural social structure and change. His interests extend to Tibet and North India also. His publications include ‘Agricultural Labour Recruitment among the Newars and Other Groups in the Sub-Himalayan Areas’ (in Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya, ed. by C. Ramble and M. Brauen, pp.124-37, Zurich: Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich, 1993), ‘Caste and Kinship in a Newar Village’ (in Contested Hierarchies, ed. by D. Gellner and D. Quigley, pp.109-57, Oxford: Claren- 6 don Press, 1995), Nepal: A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition (334pp, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1996 [with P. P. Karan and others]), and ‘Bon, Buddhist and Hindu Life Cycle Rituals: A comparison’ (in New Horizons in Bon Studies (Bon Stud- ies 2), ed. by S. G. Karmay and Y. Nagano. [Senri Ethnological Reports 15], pp.359-82, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2000). Antje Linkenbach is a social anthropologist and sociologist, currently working as Research Fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She has published in the fields of social theory, ecology, and development, and social movements, with a regional focus on South Asia, particularly the Himalayas. Books include ‘Opake Gestalten des Denkens’: Juergen Habermas und die Rationalitaet fremder Lebensfor- men (Munich, 1986) and Appropriating the Himalayan Forests: Ecology and resist- ance in Garhwal (North India) (forthcoming). Kul B. Luintel is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel University. He has published extensively in the areas of development policies, finance and growth, exchange rates, and fiscal convergence. One of his research focuses has been South and East Asia. His papers have appeared in Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Applied Econometrics, Economics, Letters, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, Manchester School etc. He is cur- rently working on stages of development and finance-growth relationship, R&D, and fiscal sustainability. Ernestine McHugh is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the Uni- versity of Rochester. Her publications include Love and Honor in the Himalayas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and various articles centred on self, person, and religious practice. She has conducted fieldwork in Nepal since 1973, and her most recent research is on globalization, identity, and the creation of meaning. Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cam- bridge and a Fellow of King’s College. His books include The Savage Wars of Peace (1998), The Riddle of the Modern World (2000), and The Making of the Modern World (2002). He has made sixteen visits to Nepal, spending about two and a half years in all in that country. Judith Pettigrew received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cam- bridge in 1995 and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lanca- shire where she teaches medical anthropology. She has conducted research in Nepal since 1990 and is presently working on an ethnography of health and healing in the ‘People’s War’. David Seddon is Professor of Sociology and Politics in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has undertaken research on Nepal since 1974 and his publications include Peasants and Workers in Nepal (1979), The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal (1979), and Nepal in Crisis (1980) (all co-authored with Piers Blaikie and John Cameron and recently republished by Adroit Publishers, New Delhi), and Nepal: A State of Poverty (1983). Recently he has written Pokhara: The biography of a town (with Jagannath Adhikari), published by Mandala Books, Kathmandu, and 7 The New Lahures: Foreign labour migration and the remittance