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Item Changing socio-economic status of Gaine community: A case study of Pokhara-16 Batulechour(Department of Sociology, 2010) Khanal, Surendra BinodThe study on” Changing socio-economic status of Gaine community” was carried by collecting primary data from the census field survey method from the Gaine community of Pokhara-16 Batulechaur, Kaski district. The broad objective of this study is to find out social and economic status of Gaine community through the administration questionnaire survey to 58 purposively selected households head of the study area. This is the descriptive ethnographic study of Gaine community. It is linked to the cognitive approaches which deal with the folk cultures of the people. The total population of the Gaine in the study area was 296 at the time of survey. Among them 146 were male and 150 were female. According to their older people of Gaine, singing, begging and dancing are their traditional occupation. Nowadays very few persons involve in the traditional occupation. They are slowly giving up their traditional occupation. They are attracted towards the modern occupation. They are greatly influenced by the effect of Urbanization, Migration, Modernization and so on.Item Continuity and Change: An EthnographicStudyof the Danuwars of Bhalwai in Kamala Khonch, Sindhuli District(Department of Sociology/Anthropology, 2008) Giri, MadhuThis isan ethnographic studyof rural Danuwar, an ethnic group of innerterai, which came to interact with the Parbatiya emigrants after the success ofDDT spraying campaign against malaria in Bhalwai settlement of KamalaKhonch of Sindhuli district. Since 1960s, different caste/ethnic groups (Parbatiya)from hills and indigenous Danuwars have been living there together. Danuwars ofBhalwai have developed their own methods of identity management through theprocesses of persistence and change. The persistence and change are taken placemore spontaneous, more locally informed dialectical interplay at the boundary.Danuwar Jagaran Samiti (DJS) has been trying to drive all the Danuwars into acommon cultural territory of ethnic groups but the Danuwars of Bhalwai areunaware regarding modern ethnic consciousness. Some of the distinct identity markers and continuation of Danuwars ofBhalwai include: Danuwari language, beliefs in god and goddesses, traditionaloccupations (fishing, hunting, and basket weaving), food habits, and rituals(marriage Sariyati and the three day cremation). Dress-ornaments, Chhodaki Nachand Manjani systems are observed changes among the Danuwars of Bhalwai.Item An Ethnographic Study of Tamangs in Rural Nepal A case study of Kerabari HillIn Sindhuli District(Department of Anthropology, 2008) Kunwar, Tika BahadurThis is an ethnographic study of Tamang at Kerabari hill in Sindhuli district. It is homogenous community of Tamang composed of Moktan, Yonjan and Lo. Their main occupations are agriculture, animal husbandry and wage labor. This research was carried out after six months of ethnographic study. Tamangs are generally assumed to be a homogenous community in their identity from outside but when they are observed closely an ethnographic standpoint great variation can be found in their social, cultural, language,economy, and ritual practice. Tamangs of Kerabari mostly go to India to earn their livelihood at a very young age, an unskilledlabor and underpaid. Most of spend their income in household expenses, very few buy lands while some manage to construct and repair their houses. No one of the Tamangs can be found in the Nepali police, army and other government employment They find the working procedures in the government offices complicated and tiring. Tamang culture it is believed that the children are born out of the mother's blood and bone of the father. Hence, the Tamang women do not change their surname ever after they are married to different clans. But interesting the Tamang women in Kerabari change their surname after marriage. It is not considered good for a Tamang woman in Kerabari to go outside for work. Overall many important variations in various aspects whether its economy, political,social, or cultural can be found among the Tamangs of Kerabari and Tamangs of other areas. There is no relationship of the Tamang of Kerabari with its umbrella organization called Nepal Tamang Ghedung (NTG) or with the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities(NEFIN). To conclude my findings, the Tamangs of Kerabari are double marginalized people of Nepal.