Articles

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Comment on Ann Rademacher, When is Housing an Environmental Problem?, Current Anthropology (2009)
 

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“The Cosmopolitanism of Environmental Activists in Sri Lanka.”, Nature and Culture (2008)

This paper examines the emergence in Sri Lanka of transcultural thinking about environmental issues as...

 

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"Shaping the tourist's gaze: Representing ethnic difference in a Nepali village.", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2001)

A certain practice associated with the tourism industry in Nepal’s Chitwan district — the ‘village...

 

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"The shaman and the priest: Ghosts, death and ritual specialists in Tharu society.", Himalayan Research Bulletin (1999)
 

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"Modernization, the state, and the construction of a Tharu identity in Nepal.", Journal of Asian Studies (1998)
 

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"The Tax-Man Cometh: The impact of revenue collection on subsistence strategies in Chitwan Tharu Society.", Studies in Nepali History & Society (1996)

Studies of peasant societies have drawn attention to the control of land as a centrally...

 

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"The Making of a Historical Consciousness: from the Mahavansa to Sinhalese Nationalism.", Chicago Anthropology Exchange (1987)
 

Books

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Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya (2010)

For the last half-century, scholarship on human-environment relations in the Himalaya has focused on two...

 

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Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal. (2002)
 

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

"Introduction", to Regionalism and Nationalism Unity in Nepal by Frederick H. Gaige (2009)
 

Plain Tales from the Fiel: Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures, The Anthropologist and the Native (2009)
 

"Caste in India", Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008)
 

"Caste systems", Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008)
 

"The Tharus of Chitwan, Nepal", Disappearing Peoples of South and Central Asia (2007)
 

“Tharu ra rajya: prajatantra, rajya nirman ra janajati pahican”, Mades: samasya ra sambhavna. (Madesh [Tarai]: Problems and Prospects.) (2006)
 

"Caste and State, India and Nepal", South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia (2003)
 

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"Malignant Spirits, Nepal", South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia (2003)
 

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"What's in a name? Aryans, Dravidians, and other myths of Sri Lankan identity", The Hybrid Island: Culture crossings and the invention of identity in Sri Lanka. (2002)
 

"Land, Labor and Ethnic Relations: Tharu-Brahmin Co-existence in two Inner Tarai districts in Nepal", Multiculturalism: Modes of co-existence in South and Southeast Asia (1999)
 

"The Modernizing Matwalis: Caste, Class, and Status among the Tharus of Chitwan", Nepal: Tharu and Tarai Neighbors. Bibliotheca Himalayica, Series III, v. 16 (1999)
 

Refereed Journals Edited

“The royal assassinations”. (A symposium on the murders of Nepal’s royal family)., Himalayan Research Bulletin (2001)
 

"Special issue on the Tharu.", Himalayan Research Bulletin (1999)
 

Other Papers, Articles and Opinion Pieces

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Srilaṅkālī saṃvaidhānik vikāsko pāth" (Lessons of Sri Lankan Constitutional Development). In Nepali., Himāl Khabar Patrikā (2009)
 

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"Road to peace in north isn’t through ‘defence colonies’", The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) (2009)
 

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"Response." (to Ashis Nandy, "South Asian Politics: Modernity and the Landscape of Clandestine and Incommunicable Selves.", Macalester International (1997)
 

Area Studies, Regional Worlds: A White Paper for the Ford Foundation. (with A. Appadurai, J. Bhabha, and S. Collins), The University of Chicago: The Globalization Project (1997)
 

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“Regional Worlds: Rethinking Area Studies.”, Colloquy (1997)
 

"A Dialogue of Civilizations: Robert Redfield and the development of language and area studies at the University of Chicago", University of Chicago: Regenstein Library (1992)
 

Book Reviews

"Review of Ethnic Warfare in Sri Lanka and the UN Crisis by William Clarance (2008)
 

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“Review of The Origins of Himalayan Studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling, 1820-1858.”, Journal of Asian Studies (2006)
 

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“Review of Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion.”, Studies in Nepali History and Society (2005)
 

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"Slash and Burn: A Swidden Critique of Sri Lankan Anthropology." (Review of Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure, by Susantha Goonatilake.), Current Anthropology (2004)
 

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“Review of Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls.”, Anthropology and Education Quarterly (2004)
 

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“Review of The Chitwan Tharus in Southern Nepal: An Ethnoecological Approach.”, Contributions to Nepalese Studies (2003)
 

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“Review of On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal.”, Himalayan Research Bulletin (2001)
 

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“Review of Relocated Lives: Displacement and Resettlement within the Mahaweli Project, Sri Lanka.”, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2000)
 

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"Review of Exploring confrontation: Sri Lanka - Politics, culture, and history.", American Ethnologist (1998)
 

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"Review of Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence.", Journal of Asian Studies (1998)
 

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"Review of Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka.", American Ethnologist (1997)
 

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"Review of A field of one's own: gender and land rights in south Asia.", Chicago South Asia Newsletter (1996)
 

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"Review of Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness: The Growth of Sinhalese Nationalism in Sri Lanka.", Anthropological Linguistics (1996)
 

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“Review of J.R. Jayawardene of Sri Lanka: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: The First Fifty Years.”, Chicago South Asia Newsletter (1989)
 

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“Review of The Breakup of Sri Lanka: The Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict.”, Chicago South Asia Newsletter (1989)