Research Catalog

Title

Global Nepalis : religion, culture, and community in a new and old diaspora / edited by David N. Gellner, Sondra L. Hausner.

Publication

• New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Gellner, David N.
• Hausner, Sondra L.

Description

xvii, 580 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Subject

• Nepali people > Foreign countries > Ethnic identity
• Népalais > Identité ethnique > Pays étrangers
• Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
• Religion
• Nepalesen
• Kultur
• Migration
• Nepal > Social aspects
• Nepal

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-555) and index.

Contents

Introduction : The Nepali/Gorkhali diaspora since the nineteenth century / David N. Gellner -- Marginal migrants? : migrant associations and the lived experience of Nepali migrant workers in India / Jeevan R. Sharma -- Identifications, state categorizations, and religious changes among Sikkimese Gurungs / Mélanie Vandenhelsken -- The religious life of the Gorkhalis of Myanmar / Sushma Joshi -- Creating Nepali ethnoscapes in Thailand / Anil Sakya -- Fiji Nepalis : reviving connections lost for over a century / Krishna P. Adhikari, Bhimsen Sapkota -- Belonging and not belonging : experiences of Nepali Gurkha families on returning from Singapore / Kelvin E.Y. Low -- Popular music among Nepalis in Bahrain : nightclubs, media, performance, and publics / Anna Stirr -- No one wants to go abroad; it's all about obligation : what migration means to Nepali workers in Qatar / Tristan Bruslé -- Transnational politics in Nepali organizations in New York / Susan Hangen -- Imagined secularisms : perspectives from the Nepali diaspora / Bandita Sijapati -- The khora of migration : everyday practices of (well) being and belonging between Mustang, Nepal, and New York City / Sienna R. Craig, Nawang Tsering Gurung -- Counting ourselves : CNSUK's 2008 survey of Nepalis in the UK / Krishna P. Adhikari, Chandra Kumar Laksamba -- Invention and tradition : Limbu adaptations of religion in the diaspora / Bal Gopal Shrestha, David N. Gellner -- Death and society : the performance of Gurung death rites in the UK / Florence Gurung -- The migration of Nepali nurses to the UK : transnational family ties, social ritual, and the role of Internet technology / Radha Adhikari -- Caste discrimination overseas : Nepali Dalits in England / Mitra Pariyar -- The non-resident Nepali movement / Krishna P. Adhikari, David N. Gellner -- Tamang gendered subjectives in a migrating world / Kathryn S. March -- Afterword : Rethinking diaspora consciousness / Sondra L. Hausner.

ISBN

• 019948192X
• 9780199481927
• 9780199093373 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018275068

OCLC

• on1053854924
• 1053854924
• SCSB-14402343

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries