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Tracking knowledge down to ground concerned with trail-based
archaeology, journeys and histories, this is a volume of both
firsts and thick context. At face-value it documents almost a
decade of groundbreaking investigations within the Annapurna
highlands of Nepal. Including survey recording of fort and
settlement sites, from the outset the projects focus was the
extraordinary ruins of Kohla Sombre Kohla, The Three Villages the
ancestral settlement of the Tami-mai (Gurung) community, who hosted
and instigated the fieldwork programme. Ultimately, only a single
seasons excavation was conducted, before the project was cut short
by the political insurgency within the country. It concluded with
holding a great shamans meeting in Pokhara in 2002, at which their
historical oral texts were presented. Narrating the long migration
of the Tamu-mai into the region and down from a distant north, the
present volume includes the full translation of one of these oral
epics, the Lemako Roh Pye. The project represents a unique
collaboration between archaeologists, anthropologists and a shaman.
Including interviews with upland inhabitants, the volume
encompasses the diverse voices of both its immediate participants
and the local community. Fulsome in its presentation of the
archaeological data and rich in ethnographic source-material, not
only is this book crucial for Himalayan culture studies generally,
but also relevant for any concerned with the construction and
context of the past in the present, and the active forging of
ethno-historical identities.
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