Introduction: Michael Allen and Newar Studies

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Notes

¹ For Allen's vitae up to the beginning of the twenty-first century, see Mary Patterson and Robert Tonkinson, ‘Editors’ Introduction’, in Anthropological Forum, Vol. 11, no. 1, (2001), pp. 7–16.

² Michael Allen, Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland (Leichhardt: The Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture/Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2000).

³ Michael Allen, ‘Buddhism without Monks: The Vajrayana Religion of the Newars of Kathmandu Valley’, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1 (1973), pp. 1–14; re-printed in Allen, Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland, pp. 161–82.

⁴ Michael Allen, The Cult of Kumari: Virgin Worship in Nepal (Kirtipur: Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, 1975; 3rd rev. and enlarged ed., Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1996). Japanese translation by Tadayuki Iso, Kumari shinkō: Nepaaru ni okeru shojo sūhai (self-published, 2003) [http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/candoli/allen_cultofkumari.PDF].

⁵ Michael Allen, ‘Hierarchy and Complementarity in Newar Caste, Marriage and Labour Relations’, in Mankind, Vol. 17, no. 2 (August 1987), pp. 92–103; ‘Hierarchy and Complementarity in Newar Eating Arrangements’, in Charles Ramble and Martin Brauen (eds), Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya: September 21-28, 1990 at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich (Zurich: Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich, 1993). Both papers were ‘integrated’ and re-published as ‘Hierarchy and Complementarity in Newar Society’, in Allen, Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland, pp. 252–81.

⁶ Michael Allen, ‘Girls’ Pre-Puberty Rites Among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley’, in Michael Allen & S.N. Mukherjee (eds), Women in India and Nepal (Canberra: Australian National University, 1982), pp. 179–210; re-printed in Allen, Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland, pp. 211–51.

⁷ Michael Allen, ‘Procession and Pilgrimage in Newar Religion’, in The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 3, no. 3 (1992), pp. 130–41; re-printed in Allen, Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland, pp. 282–98.

⁸ Tenzin Gayden, Alicia M. Cadenas, Maria Regueiro, Nanda B. Singh, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Peter A. Underhill, Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza and Rene J. Herrera, ‘The Himalayas as a Directional Barrier to Gene Flow’, in The American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 80, no. 5 (May 2007), pp. 884–94.

⁹ Mark S.G. Dyczkowski, The Cult of the Goddess Kubjikā: A Preliminary Comparative Textual and Anthropological Survey of a Secret Newar Goddess (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001), pp. 1–12, 35ff; Michael Witzel, ‘On the History and the Present State of Vedic Tradition in Nepal’, in Vasudha, Vol. XV, no. 12 (Oct.–Nov. 1976), pp. 17–24, 35–9 [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/87/1/Veda.in.Nepal.1976.pdf].

¹⁰ Allen, ‘Buddhism without Monks’, p. 13.

¹¹ Hemarāja Śākya, Śrīsvayambhū Mahācaitya (Yeṃ: Svayambhū Vikāśa Maṇḍala, NS 1078 [1978]). A full translation was later published independently. See Min Bahadur Shakya, Svayambhū Mahācaitya (Kathmandu: Svayambhu Vikash Mandal, 2004).

¹² See for example Frank and Josette Heimans, The Living Goddess (Cremorne: Cinetel Productions, 1976); and more recently Isabella Tree, The Living Goddess, a Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2014).

¹³ John Locke, Buddhist Monasteries of Nepal (Kathmandu: Sahayogi Press, 1985), now being re-printed (Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2014). For a mostly cosmetic update to Locke's survey see David Andolfatto, An Inventory of the Buddhist Sites of the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal): Description and Consideration of Their Conservation State (Paris: Oriental Cultural Heritage Sites Protection Alliance, 2012).