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Volume 34, Number 2 (2014)

Research Articles

Locating the Copper-Colored Mountain: Buddhist Cosmology, Himalayan Geography, and Maps of Imagined Worlds
Benjamin Bogin

Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels
Michael Hutt

Developing the Himalaya: Development as if Livelihoods Mattered
Georgina Drew

Socio-Ecological Vulnerability in a Tibetan Village on the Mekong River, China
Brendan A. Galipeau

Visualizing Hydropower Across the Himalayas: Mapping in a time of Regulatory Decline
Kelly D. Alley, Ryan Hile, and Chandana Mitra

Precarity and Possibility: On being Young and Indigenous in Sikkim, India
Mabel D. Gergan

The Bittersweet Taste of Rice. Sloping Land Conversion and the Shifting Livelihoods of the Drung in Northwest Yunnan (China)
Stéphane Gros

The History and Development of De-swiddening among the Ersu in Sichuan, China
Edwin A. Schmitt

Conference Reports

The 12th British-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) Nepal Study Days, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK 24-25 April 2014
Kalyan Bhandari

The Third ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference, Yale University, 14-16 March 2014
P. P. Karan

Literature

The Flying Nagas
Maureen T. Drdak

American Bardo
Adrie Kusserow

Perspectives

Making a ‘Hydropower Nation’: Subjectivity, Mobility, and Work in the Nepalese Hydroscape
Austin Lord

Reviews

Review of 'Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation' by Megan Adamson Sijapati
David N. Gellner

Review of 'Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: The Changing Politics of Language Choice' edited by Harold F. Schiffman
Sami Honkasalo

Review of 'Mediating the Global: Expatria’s Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu' by Heather Hindman
Mark Liechty

Review of 'Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area' edited by Thomas Owen-Smith and Nathan W. Hill
Luke Lindemann

Review of 'Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Volume 11)' edited by Armando Lamadrid and Ilan Kelman
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa

Review of 'The Sacred Town of Sankhu: The Anthropology of Newar Ritual, Religion, and Society in Nepal' by Bal Gopal Shrestha
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

Review of 'Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas: Experiments and Experiences' edited by Vibha Arora and N. Jayaram
Luke Wagner

Other

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Table of Contents

Editorial
Sienna Craig and Mark Turin

Ladakh Studies Organization Notice
Sunetro Goshal

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