Books and Edited Volumes
Many
Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Reviews
• American Ethnologist
• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Books and edited volumes in progress
• Symbolic Ecologies: Culture, Nature, and Society in the Himalaya (editor). Under review.
• Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia. Co-edited with Anita M. Weiss. Under contract with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Refereed Journals edited
• Himalaya (formerly Himalayan Research Bulletin, Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies). With effect from 2007. Issues in preparation.
• Guest Editor, Special issue of Himalayan Research Bulletin on the Tharu. Vol. 19 (2), 1999.
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Refereed Articles
“The Cosmopolitanism of Environmental Activists in Sri Lanka.” Nature and Culture (in press).
"Shaping
the tourist's gaze: Representing ethnic difference in
a Nepali village." The Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute 7 (3): 527-543, 2001.
"The shaman and the priest: Ghosts, death and ritual specialists in Tharu society." Himalayan Research Bulletin XIX (2): 1-12, 1999.
"Modernization,
the State, and the Construction of a Tharu Identity in
Nepal." The Journal of Asian Studies
57(3): 749-773, 1998.
"The
Tax-Man Cometh: The impact of revenue collection on subsistence
strategies in Chitwan Tharu Society."
Studies in Nepali History & Society1(1): 5-35,
1996.
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Book Chapters and Miscellaneous Papers
• “From Big Game to Bio-Diversity: Middle-Class Environmental Activists and Wildlife Conservation in Sri Lanka.” Forthcoming in David Gellner, ed., Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia. New Delhi: Sage.
• “The Tharus and the State: Reflections on Democracy, State Building and the Shaping of Ethnic Identity in Nepal and India.” Forthcoming in Proceedings of a Conference on Nepal Tarai: Context and Possibilities. Kathmandu: Social Science Baha.
• “Plain Tales from the Field: Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures.” In H. L. Seneviratne, ed., The Anthropologist and the Native. Florence: University of Florence Press and New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. In press (publication in 2008).
• “Caste systems.” Entry in Peter N. Stearns et al, eds., Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press. In press (publication in 2008).
• “Caste in India.” Entry in Peter N. Stearns et al, eds., Encyclopedia of the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press. . In press (publication in 2008).
• ”The Tharus of Chitwan, Nepal.” In Barbara Brower and Barbara Rose Johnson, eds. Disappearing Peoples of South and Central Asia. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007.
• “Tharu ra rajya: prajatantra, rajya nirman ra janajati pahican.” (in Nepali; version of “The Tharus and the State” above). In Basant Thapa and Mohan Mainali, eds., Mades: samasya ra sambhavna. (Madesh [Tarai]: Problems and Prospects.). Lalitpur, Nepal: Social Science Baha, 2006.
"Caste and State, India and Nepal." Entry
in Margaret Mills, Peter J. Claus, and Sarah Diamond eds., South
Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New
York and London: Routledge, 2003.
"Malignant Spirits, Nepal." Entry in Margaret Mills, Peter J. Claus, and Sarah Diamond eds., South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
"What's in a name? Aryans, Dravidians, and other
myths of Sri Lankan identity." In Neluka Silva, ed., The
Hybrid Island: Culture crossings and the invention of
identity in Sri Lanka. Colombo: Social Scientists'
Association, 2002 and London: Zed Books, 2002.
"Land, Labor and Ethnic Relations: Tharu-Brahmin Co-existence in two Inner Tarai districts in Nepal." In Multiculturalism: Modes of co-existence in South and Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, USA, 1999
"The Modernizing Matwalis: Caste, Class, and Status among the Tharus of Chitwan." In Harald O. Skar, ed., Nepal: Tharu and Tarai Neighbors. Bibliotheca Himalayica, Series III, v. 16. Kathmandu: EMR, 1999.
"Area Studies, Regional Worlds: A White Paper for the Ford Foundation." Co-authored with Arjun Appadurai, Jacqueline Bhabha and Steven Collins. The University of Chicago: The Globalization Project, 1997.
"Response" (to Ashis Nandy, "South Asian Politics: Modernity and the Landscape of Clandestine and Incommunicable Selves"). Macalester International. Vol. 4, Spring 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.
"The Making of a Historical Consciousness: from the Mahavansa to Sinhalese Nationalism." Chicago Anthropology Exchange, v.16, pp. 45-62, 1987.
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Book Reviews
The Origins of Himalayan Studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling 1820-1858, edited by David M. Waterhouse. Journal of Asian Studies, 65 (2):437-38, 2006.
Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion, edited by Michael Hutt. Studies in Nepali History and Society, 10 (1): 171-176, 2005.
“Val kota gini läma: shri lankave vidyava pilibanda kätte udälle vivaranayak.” Sinhala translation of item below. Patitha, 3: 278-284, 2005 (published by the Colombo Foundation in Sri Lanka).
“Slash and Burn: A Swidden Critique of Sri Lankan Anthropology.” Review of Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure, by Susantha Goonatilake. Current Anthropology, 45(5): 718-720, 2004. Reprinted in The Island (daily newspaper, Colombo, Sri Lanka), February 8th, 2006.
Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls, by Mary Ann Maslak. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 35 (2), June 2004.
The Chitwan Tharus in Southern Nepal: An Ethnoecological Approach, by Ulrike Müller-Böker. Contributions to Nepalese Studies, 30 (2), 2003.
On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal, by Mary Cameron. Himalayan Research Bulletin, 21 (2): 98-100, 2001.
Relocated
Lives: Displacement and Resettlement within the Mahaweli
Project, Sri Lanka, by Birgitte Refslund Sørensen. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6 (2): 358, 2000.
Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka-Politics, Culture and History, by Michael Roberts. American Ethnologist 25 (3): 527-28, 1998.
Theft
of an Idol, by Paul Brass. The Journal
of Asian Studies 57 (1): 248-249, 1998.
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka, edited by James Brow and Joe Weeramunda. American Ethnologist 24 (2): 498-499, 1997.
Language, Religion and Ethnic Assertiveness: The Growth of Sinhalese Nationalism in Sri Lanka, by K.N.O.Dharmadasa. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (3): 588-590, 1996.
A field of one's own: Gender and land rights in South Asia, by Bina Agarwal. Chicago South Asia Newsletter 20 (2): 9-10, 1996.
J.R. Jayawardene of Sri Lanka: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: The First Fifty Years, by K.M. de Silva and Howard Wriggins. Chicago South Asia Newsletter, 13 (3): 8-9, 1989.
The Breakup of Sri Lanka: The Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict, by A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. Chicago South Asia Newsletter, 13 (2): 8-9, 1989.
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