This detailed study on the Sunuwar people, one of the many indigenous peoples of Nepal, is based on more than twenty years of ethnographic research. The book st

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This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining material repre

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After offering the reader the general context of Tibetan forced migration to India evoking Tibetan history, culture, the book looks closely at different methodo