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4.0 out of 5 stars
This book may answer some of your questions about Nepal, February 3, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Culture Shock! Nepal: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)
If you've visited Nepal but are left with more questions than answers, or if you plan to work or live in the country, this is a good book to read. The first 100 pages are a somewhat dry description of the many Nepali tribes and castes, their traditions, differences, and origins.
The next chapter "The Nepali life cycle", is fun to read, and enlightening, also in what concerns the status and life style of Nepali women. Take the following example: Hindu tradition poses high responsability on fathers to watch over their daughters; to sidestep this burden, the Newar people invented a trick. Surprising as it is, by marrying their daughters at the age of seven to the god Vishnu, and thus reducing any subsequent marriage to the status of "secondary marriage", there is no shame for the family if the daughter is not "pure" before marriage, and also divorce is possible for her. Also aspects of schooling and courtship are discussed.
The chapters are "Dealing with Nepalis" and "Close encounters", reflect the author's experience with handling projects in Nepal and may be very useful if you wish to set up a project in Nepal and to keep it running smoothly.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, but out of date, November 13, 2009
This review is from: Culture Shock! Nepal: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)
I spent more time with this than any other travel or culture guide prior to arrival, and really enjoyed reading through it. It painted a picture of a country far less developed and westernized than you see in modern Pokhara or Kathmandu, however. Well worth checking out if you're going to be out in the middle of nowhere, but the book needs a substantial update before it'll be a decent prep for life in the capital city.
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6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
a manual with no soul..., January 11, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Culture Shock! Nepal: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)
Dry information: a description of Nepali's and their customs written as if they were apples, oranges and pears. Not completely uninteresting, but I will certainly suppliment this book with others
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