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Reihe Khumbu Himal - Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya - Band 13

1. Lieferung - Erschienen 1972 im Wagner-Verlag

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Abhandlung von Dieter Höss zum Befall mit Parasiten (Band- und Fadenwürmer) in Nepal.














2. Lieferung - Erschienen 1979 im Wagner-Verlag

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Veröffentlichung von Prof. Andras Höfer in englischer Sprache. Der Inhalt erschließt sich aus der der nachfolgend wiedergegebenen Rezension durch Prof. Donald A. Messerschmidt von der Washington State University

Weiterhin beschrieben werden verschiedene Käferarten, darunter Canthariden (Weichkäfer), Malachiiden (Zipfelkäfer), Catopiden (Nestkäfer) und Aphodius (Dungkäfer). Den Abschluß des 2. Teiles bildet ein Artikel von Zimmer über Begegnungen mit der tibetischen Medizin.

The Caste Hierarchy is a very welcome book in Nepalese studies, and brings the study of Nepalese caste to a new height of appreciation and understanding. The Muluki Ain (hereafter MA) of 1854 is the basis for caste/social interaction in Nepal today (although there have been important revisions since that date). The 640 page MA covers a host of topics. In Höfer's treatise of it, only those aspects which deal expressly with the caste hierarchy are discussed. Höfer's approach is that the law is not a "theory of caste", but "one of the ethnotheories that a particular caste society has of itself." It is a form of "common law applicable within a state territory," a "representation of an entire traditional society." Similar legal codes in India do not deal with caste to the extent and depth that the Nepalese MA does, and this is one of its distinguishing characteristics. legal codes like the MA were designed for a variety of purposes, not the least of which,he tells us, was to solidify and define an emerging state system. Höfer calls this process the "etatisation" of society, custom and religion.

Höfer treats us to an interpretation of the MA's approach to purity/impurity, commensality, sexual relations, status, the varna model and division of labor, slavery and asceticism, ethnic group and caste, the place of natives and foreigners under the law, tolerance, the sanctioning of custom, change of caste and mobility, public authority, the role of the state, and the effects of recent (1951) Tamangs within the hierarchy, and with the law dealing with cow kiling.

The bibliography llsts both Nepalese and European sources. There is no general index (it needs one), but two specific indices give us indigenous terms and ethnic and caste names.

This is an important contribution to the literature on Nepalese social structure. It should be in the hands of all scholars of Hindu caste. all students of Nepalese history and soclety, and in every major library and specialist library.

3. Lieferung - Erschienen 1979 im Wagner-Verlag

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Erläuterungen zur Orginalausgabe des Stadtplan Kathmandu City 1:10.000 als Ergänzung zur Karte Kathmandu Valley 1:50,000.

Inhalt:
  • Finsterwalder, Rü.: The "1:10,000 Kathmandu City" Map, 1 Kartenbeilage, S. 241-244
  • Höfer, A.: The Place Names and Their Transliteration (with reference to the 1:10,000 map of Kathmandu City), S. 245-246
  • Gutschow, N.: Kathmandu: Historical Development, Spatial Structure, Social and Ritual Topography (with reference to the 1:10,000 map of Kathmandu City), 4 Abb., S. 247-256





4. Lieferung - Erschienen 1981 im Wagner-Verlag

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Erläuterungen zur Kartenbeilage Stadtplan Patan City.

Inhalt:
  • Finsterwalder, Rü.: The "1:7,500 Patan City" Map, 1 Kartenbeilage, S. 257-259
  • Höfer, A.: The Place Names and Their Transliteration (with reference to the 1:7,500 map of Patan City), S. 260-261
  • Gutschow, N.: Patan: Historical Development, Spatial Structure, Social and Ritual Topography (with reference to the 1:7,500 map of Patan City), 8 Abb., S. 262-272