People of Nepal (book)

People of Nepal
AuthorDor Bahadur Bista
PublisherAsia Book Corp of Amer
Publication date
4th edition (January 1981)
Publication placeNepal
Pages252
ISBN99933-0-418-2

People of Nepal is a 1967 book by Dor Bahadur Bista. The book is the first relatively comprehensive view of the vast array of Nepalese cultures, castes and ethnic groups, with descriptions of their unique customs.[1][2][3][4] It is written by anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista.

Bista visited East Nepal with Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf in the 1950s. People of Nepal contains his ethnographic notes from the visit.[5]

University of Zurich professor Werner M. Egli wrote in his 2014 book The Sunuwar of Nepal and their Sense of Communication that People of Nepal is a "classic".[5] Anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin, a professor at the University of British Columbia, wrote in his 2012 book A Grammar of the Thangmi Language that People of Nepal was "definitive".[6] The Nepali Times called Bista's book a "seminal work".[7]

  1. ^ Bista, Dor Bahadur (1 January 1972). "People of Nepal". Ratna Pustak Bhandar – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Ratna Pustak Bhandar - The Oldest Book Store - Kathmandu, Nepal".
  3. ^ Asia, Mandala Book Point - Kantipath, Kathmandu, Nepal -. "People of Nepal - Dor Bahadur Bista - Mandala Book Point, Kantipath, Kathmandu, Nepal".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ . ISBN 978-9992190036. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ a b Egli, Werner M. (2014). The Sunuwar of Nepal and their Sense of Communication: A Study in the Culture, Psychology and Shamanism of a Himalayan People. Berlin: LIT Verlag. p. 31. ISBN 978-3643801890. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  6. ^ Turin, Mark (2012). A Grammar of the Thangmi Language. Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 34. ISBN 978-9004155268. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  7. ^ Subedi, Salil (2000-07-26). "Dor Bahadur Alive". Nepali Times. Archived from the original on 2015-03-07. Retrieved 2015-03-06.