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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2004 Routledge hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: Brian Houghton Hodgson was a nineteenth-century administrator and scholar who lived in Nepal, where he was the British Resident from 1820 until 1843. After this he worked as an independent scholar in Darjeeling until 1858. During his time in the Himalayas Hodgson, with extraordinary dedication, laid the foundations for the study of the eastern Himalayan region, writing about many aspects of life and culture. He was among the first westerners to take an interest in Buddhism, both writing about it and collecting manuscripts. He is perhaps best known for his work as an ornithologist and zoologist, writing around 130 papers and commissioning from Nepalese artists a unique series of drawings of birds and mammals. He also wrote about and recorded details of the buildings and architecture of the Kathmandu valley and wrote a series of ethnographic and linguistic papers on Nepal and the Himalayan region. Hodgson donated his collection of writings, specimens and drawings to libraries and museums in Europe, much of which still needs detailed examination. This book critically examines Hodgson's life and achievement, within the context of his contribution to scholarship. It consists of contributions from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, zoology and ethnography. Many of the drawings photographed for this book have not previously been published. Contents: Foreword by Thomas R. Trautmann Preface 1 Brian Hodgson - a biographical sketch by David Waterhouse Early days The first two years in Nepal The background Hodgson in Nepal 1824-1843 Darjeeling The final years 2 The political role of Brian Hodgson by John Whelpton 3 Brian Houghton Hodgson - the unsung story by Harihar Raj Joshi Hodgson in Kathmandu society Meharunnisha Begum 4 The ambivalent exegete: Hodgson's contributions to the study of Buddhism by Donald S. Lopez Jr 5 'The architectural monuments of Buddhism': Hodgson and the Buddhist architecture of the Kathmandu Valley by J.P. Losty Introduction Hodgson's collecting of antiquarian drawings Reactions to Hodgson's drawings The artist's origins The collections in Paris The collections in London Hodgson's conclusions on the Buddhist architecture of Nepal Appendix to Chapter 5: architectural illustrations of Buddhism B.H. Hodgson's essay 6 Zoology . . . amuses me much by Ann Datta and Carol Inskipp Background Hodgson as a zoologist Hodgson and the museum world Hodgson's publishing ventures 7 Brian Hodgson and the mammals and other animals of Nepal by Ann Datta Introduction Early mammal work in Nepal Pantholops hodgsonii - the Tibetan antelope First attempts to describe Nepalese mammals New species in Nepal and Tibet Animal distribution Animal behaviour Anatomical studies The reptiles, amphibians and fish of Nepal Hodgson and entomology Appendix 1 Appendix 2 8 A pioneer of Himalayan ornithology by Carol Inskipp 9 Hodgson, Hooker and the Himalayan frontier, 1848-1850 by David Arnold The 'complete Himalayan naturalist' Science on the Himalayan frontier The political frontier 10 Brian Hodgson as ethnographer and ethnologist by Martin Gaenszle The residency years: Hodgson as ethnographer The years in Darjeeling: Hodgson as ethnologist Reception of Hodgson's ethnographic work Conclusion: from collector of intelligence to comparative ethnologist 11 Hodgson's Tibeto-Burman and Tibeto-Burman today by George van Driem Turanian Indo-Chinese Tibeto-Burman Hodgson as a Tibeto-Burmanist 12 Hodgson's legacy by David Waterhouse Collections in Europe Collections in South Asia Select bibliography.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.…

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Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorGeorge van Driem, Ph.D. (1987), Leiden University, holds the Chair of Historical Linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He has published several grammars of previously undescribed Himalayan langua.

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