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Academic Publications:
2006

“Revisiting Ethnography, Recognizing a Forgotten People: The Thangmi of Nepal and India” in Studies in Nepali History and Society. 11 (1): 97-181. Co-authored with Mark Turin.

2006

“Living Practical Dharma: A Tribute to Chomo Khandru and the Bonpo Women of Lubra Village, Mustang, Nepal” in Women’s Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints and Singers. Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 69-93.

2006

“Barbarians at the Border and Civilising Projects: Analaysing Ethnic and National Identities in the Tibetan Context” in Tibetan Borderlands. (Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, 2003). Christiaan Klieger, ed. Leiden: Brill. 9-34.

2006

Seeking the Tribe: Ethno-politics in Darjeeling and Sikkim” in Himal Southasian. March-April 2006. 19 (2): 54-58. co-authored with Mark Turin.

2005 "Agency and Resistance in the Thangmi-Newar Ritual Relationship: An analysis of Devikot-Khadga Jatra in Dolakha, Nepal" in The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 28: 5-42.
2004

"The Path to Janasarkar in Dolakha District: Towards an Ethnography of the Maoist Movement" in Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion, Michael Hutt, ed. London: Hurst & Co. 77-109. co-authored with Mark Turin.

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2004 "Relationships, Complicity and Representation: Conducting Research in Nepal during the Maoist Insurgency" in Anthropology Today. 20 (1): 20-25. co-authored with Judith Pettigrew and Ian Harper.
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2004

"Women and the Maobadi: Ideology and Agency in Nepal's Maoist Movement" in Himal Southasian, January 2004. 17 (1): 19-29. co-authored with Judith Pettigrew

2003

"Violent Histories and Political Consciousness: Reflections on Nepal's Maoist Movement from Piskar Village" in Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 23 (1): 38-48.

2002 "Embodied Ancestors: Territory and the Body in Thangmi Death Rituals" in Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas (PIATS 2000: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000). Katia Buffetrille and Hildegard Diemberger, eds. Leiden: Brill. 233-252.
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2000 "Preliminary Etymological Notes on Thangmi Clan Names and Indigenous Explanations of their Provenance" in The Journal of Nepalese Literature, Art and Culture. Volume 3, Number 2. 69-83. co-authored with Mark Turin.
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2000 "Thangmi, Thami, Thani? Remembering a Forgotten People" in Himalayan Culture. Volume 5, Number 1. Kathmandu, Nepal. 5-21. co-authored with Mark Turin.
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2000 "Sisterly Clans: A Collection of Thoughts on Thami Women" in Ãdivasi Mahilã Awãj (Voice of Indigenous Women), barsa-2, anka-3 baisakh-asar 2057 (Year 2, Issue 3, Baisakh-Asar 2057). Kathmandu. 18-21.
1999 "Appropriate Treasure: Reflections on Women, Buddhism, and Cross-Cultural Exchange" in Buddhist Women Across Cultures. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, ed. Albany: SUNY Press. 221-238.
Edited Books:
2003 The Gauri Shankar Trekking Area (including Rolwaling) - A Cultural Tour Book, edited by Patricia East, Susan Höivik, Max Petrik, Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin. Co-published by Eco Himal and Mandala Book Point. ISBN 99933-10-20-0. 124 pages, colour and monochrome plates, trekking map.
Reviews, Reports and Letters:
2006

Review of Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society, Mark Liechty, in Journal of Asian Studies. 65(3): 645-646.

2005

"Anthropology in a Time of Crisis: A Note from Nepal" in Anthropology News (Human Rights Forum). 46(5): 30-31.

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2005

Review of Ethnic Revival and Religious Turmoil: Identities and Representations in the Himalayas, Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Pascale Dollfus eds, in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 28: 100.

2003

Review of Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal, William Fisher, in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 24: 129-132.

2003 "Short Takes #9: Women and War" in Anthropology News (Section News of the Association for Feminist Anthropology) May 2003. 44 (53). 40.
2003 Review of Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists by Robert Desjarlais in Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 23 (2): 23-24.
2003 "Returning Footage to the Himalayas" in Viewfinder: the Magazine of the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC). March 2003. No. 50. 10-12. co-authored with Mark Turin.
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2003 "Digital Himalaya: Returning Cultural Property in Nepal" in IIAS Newsletter. July 2003. No. 31. 23.
2003 Conference report on The Agenda of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy, Kathmandu, 24-26 April 2003. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 24: 78-80. co-authored with Mark Turin.
2002 "Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age" in Interarchive: Archival Practices and Sites. Beatrice von Bismarck et al, eds. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König. 359-361. co-authored with Mark Turin.
2001 "Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age" in The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 20-21: 136-141. co-authored with Mark Turin.
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2001 "Haimendorf’s Laptop: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age" in IIAS Newsletter. November 2001. 26: 20. co-authored with Mark Turin.
2001 "Caravan: a Rejoinder", in Himal South Asian. April 2000. 13 (4): 5. co-authored with Mark Turin
1996 "Strength and Silence of Buddhist Women" in Himal Magazine. March 1996. 7.
Journalism:
2007

Illustrating a Mother Tongue” in Nepali Times. October 12-18, 2007. 370: 13.

2005

"Swapping Identities: Borderland Exchanges along the Nepal-TAR Frontier" in Himal Southasian. November-December 2005. 18 (3): 32-33.

2005

"The Other Nepali Politics: Darjeeling" in Nation Weekly. February 6, 2005. 1 (42): 27-29.

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2004

"Dasain in Dolakha: Cautiously Optimistic" in Nation Weekly. November 14, 2004. 1 (30): 32-33. co-authored with Mark Turin.

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2003 "Tibet, Tibet" in Nepali Times. June 20-26, 2003. 150: 3. co-authored with Mark Turin.
2003 "Reply", in Nepali Times. July 4-10, 2003. 152: 3. co-authored with Mark Turin.
2003 "Yams in Boulderland" in Nepali Times. September 5-11, 2003. 161: 8-9. co-authored with Mark Turin.
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2000 "Rethinking Himalayan Cinema", in People's Review. April 27-May 3, 2000. 9 (37): 6. co-authored with Mark Turin.
2000 "Throwing Bricks At Foreigners" in The Kathmandu Post. April 23, 2000. Sunday Post Supplement: 2.
2000 "A Retrospective of Jan Salter’s Work" in The Kathmandu Post. May 14, 2000. Sunday Post Supplement: 2.
2000 "A Journey Up the Langtang Valley" in The Alpine Pocket Guide to Nepal, Alpine Travel Service, Kathmandu. 244-250.
1999 "Do You Know Where Your Sons Are?" in The Kathmandu Post. June 25, 1999. 4.
1998 "Seven Years in Tibet vs. Terminator" in Earshot, Issue #1, Kathmandu. 5.
1996 "Moving Mountains: Continuity and Modernity in the Himalayas" in The College Hill Independent, Brown University, February 29, 1996.
1994 "Zen and the Art of Cross-Cultural Exchange" in The College Hill Independent, Brown University, April 1994.