Volume 38, Number 1 (2018)
Research Articles
All the King’s Horses, All the King’s Elephants: The Fates of Royal Animals in Nepal’s Post-Monarchy Period
Anne Mocko and Shaunna Barnhart
The Singer of Tibet: Shabkar (1781-1851), the “Inescapable Nation,” and Buddhist Universalism
Rachel H. Pang
Obscure Existential Narratives: Predetermination and Freedom in Nepalese Horoscopic Knowledge.
Samuele Poletti
Introduction: Popular Music Across the Himalayas
Noé Dinnerstein and Andrew Alter
The State of the Guitar in Kathmandu
Mason Brown and Samyog Regmi
Making a Living as a Musician in Nepal: Multiple Regimes of Value in a Changing Popular Folk Music Industry
Anna M. Stirr
Conference Reports
2017 Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya
Michael Baltutis
Annual Conference on South Asia
Kyle Gardner
Literature
Selected Poems
Manglesh Dabral
Perspectives
Verses of Praise and Denigration: Finding Poetic Creativity in the Tibetan Election in Exile
Tsering Wangchuk
Artwork
Reviews
Review of The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal, 1820–43 by Charles Allen
Douglas F. Ober
Review of River Dialogues: Hindu Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga by Georgina Drew
Brian Pennington
Review of The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering After the Enlightenment by Peter H. Hansen
Don Messerschmidt
Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett
Andrew Nelson
Review of Paradigms & Public Sector Reform: Public Administration of Bhutan by Lhwang Ugyel
Michael Givel
Other
President’s Letter
Heather Hindman
Obituary | Dina Bangdel (1963–2017)
Kerry Lucinda Brown
Obituary | Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918–2017)
Gautama V. Vajracharya
