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Kathryn March and David Holmberg collection on Nepal's ethnicities and the People's War

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8674

Scope and content

Variety of published materials, mostly in languages of Nepal. Many serials, pamphlets, ephemera. Also, a photo album (ca. 1990) made by a Cornell student, presumably one in the Cornell Nepal Study Abroad Program, or perhaps on another trip that took students to Nepal.

Dates

  • 1971 - 2013

Creator

Language of Material

In English, Nepali, Tamang, and/or Limbu.

Biographical / Historical

Cornell anthropologists Kathryn March and David Holmberg worked in the Himalayas for several decades. They collected intensively on Nepali politics and cultures during the period of the People's War, 1996-2002, and its aftermath.

Extent

3.87 cubic feet. (4.87 cubic feet.)

Related Material

See also the online collection Digital Tamang.

Status
Completed
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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