Contributions to Nepalese Studies articles from July 2002

Contributions to Nepalese Studies archives from July 2002

Negotiating peace and cooperation in South Asia: trends and travails.
July 1, 2002... In War and Peace Leo Tolstoy wrote that the political leaders are driven by the underlying social forces of which they are indicators rather than commanders. Examples of underlying social forces are population increase requiring to create more...

Health needs in two ethnic communities of Humla District, Nepal.
July 1, 2002... Introduction This report summarizes findings from a primary health care baseline study conducted in September and October of 1999, in upper Humla district, Nepal. (1) This study establishes measures of health conditions in Humla, and...

HIV/AIDS in Nepal: the making of a cultural model.
July 1, 2002... Introduction HIV/AIDS has become a prominent problem in the tiny South Asian country of Nepal. Experts have stated that the number of AIDS cases has increased fifteen-fold over a three-year period (1990-93) and the numbers were expected to...

Migration and spread of HIV/AIDS: a view from medical geography.
July 1, 2002... "A Physician can't understand the essence of disease unless he is a geographer too."--Paracelus Introduction Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized in 1981. Strictly speaking, the term AIDS refers only to the...

Cameroon, Mary M. 1998. On the Edge of the Auspicious Gender and Caste in Nepal.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 394. Price $ 24.95. Except few studies done in different contexts by anthropologists, such as Patricia Caplan, Gregory Meserick and Peter Prindle, ethnographic research on low caste groups,...

State of Nepal.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Dixit, Kanak Mani and Shastri Ramachandaran. eds. 2002. Himal Books: Kathmandu. ISBN 99933-13-22-X. Price: NRs. 490. Recipe: take sixteen of the most articulate and incisive Nepali minds, give each of them around twenty pages to tell their...