International development draws on a globalized vision of 'traditional medicine'when
constructing country-specific programs that use local practitioners to further health …

Abstract The adoption of Primary Health Care in developing countries brought a new interest
in the influence of cultural factors in community health programs. This paper traces the …

This chapter explores some of what it means for young people to grow up in a world
radically different from that of their parents. Identity formation occurs within communities but …

Nepal is a predominantly rural nation: Most people live in villages and make their living as
subsistence farmers. The Nepalese government, assisted by international donor agencies …

This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990.
These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific …

Studies in timbre perception have historically proceeded in one of two directions: either they
have attempted to identify the salient features of an acoustic signal that translate into the …

Since 1815 Nepalese men have served as soldiers in foreign armies, first of colonial India,
and later of India and the United Kingdom. The first part of this study documents the creation …

Anthropologists and geographers are increasingly tuming to one another for tools to analyze
the present global political-economic conjuncture. Yet to date there has been no adequate …

An incident in a Nepali village, late one August afternoon in 1987, illustrates how people
there have come to connect ideas about national development to healing. A young woman …

Carole Pateman's work has been central to feminist critiques of the social contract, revealing
it to be better understood as the sexual/social contract in which not only is the contracting …