David Waterhouse

The Origins of Himalayan Studies

Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and publisged xtensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, ornithology and ethnography, critically examine Hodgson's life and achievement within the context of his contribution to scholarship. Many of the drawings photographed for this book have not previously been published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415312158
• ISBN-10: 0415312159
• Artikelnr.: 20970678

Autorenporträt

David M. Waterhouse is Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was British Council Director in Nepal from 1972 to 1977.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Technical
Note Details of Contributors Foreword 1. Brian Hodgson - A Biographical
Sketch 2. The Political Role of Brian Hodgson 3. Brian Hodgson - The Unsung
Story 4. The Ambivalent Exegete - Hodgson's Contribution to the Study of
Buddhism 5. The Architectural Monuments of Buddhism - Hodgson and the
Buddhist Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley Appendix - B.H.Hodgson's
Essay: Architectural Illustrations of Buddhism 6. Zoology Amuses Me Much 7.
Brian Hodgson and the Mammals and other Animals of Nepal 8. A Pioneer of
Himalayan Ornithology 9. Hodgson, Hooker and the Himalayan Frontier 10.
Brian Hodgson as Ethnographer and Ethnologist 11. Hodgson's Tibeto-Burman
and Tibeto-Burman Today 12. Hodgson's Legacy Bibliography Index