Kinship Studies in Nepali Anthropology

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Revisiting kinship studies in Nepali Anthropology: a critique and a proposal/Laya Prasad Uprety. 2. Kinship structure in Nepali Society: A reexamination of the unilineal descent system/Dilli R. Dahal. 3. “Not my Relative” Reckoning kinship and relatedness among the Lobas of Mustang/Ram B. Chhetri. 4. Territorial marriage pattern and kinship relation among the Bahun-Chhetris in Kanth of Kathmandu/Binod Pokharel and Uma Bhandari. 5. “Dhimal-Limbu Daju Bhai”: Inter-ethnic kinship, place-making and indigenous activism in the Eastern Nepal/Janak Rai. 6. Syaisyai as an Institution for creating solidarity: Death rite passage and kin roles in the Gurung community/Prakash Upadhyay. 7. Mit relation in far west: ritual, reciprocity and reproduction of social relationship/Suresh Dhakal and Nabin Rawal. 8. Tamang Clans and social organization/Mukta S. Tamang. 9. The political economy of kinship and marriage among the Musahars/Madhu Giri. 10. Conversion to Christianity and changing kinship practice among the Santhal people in the Eastern Tarai, Nepal/Lagan Rai. 11. Cross-cousin marriage practices among the Magars of Nepal: An anthropological perspective/Shyamu Thapa Magar. 12. Functions of Kinship in ecological adaptation: an ethnographic study from a village of Eastern Nepal/Bhanu Timseena. 13. Kinship network among the Tharus: preliminary ethnographic observations from Western Terai of Nepal/Surya Bhakta Sigdel.