Resources and Population
A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal

Table of Contents

List of tables
List of figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
Weights, measures, and conversion factors
1. Demography and anthropology
2. The Gurungs of Nepal
Part I. Resources:
3. Long-term change in the Gurung economy
4. Forest and land resources
5. Changes in the distribution of arable land
6. Capital assets excluding land and forest
7. The application of capital
input-output data
8. Income, consumption and expenditure
9. Surpluses, deficits and the accumulation of capital
Part II. Population:
10. Population growth in Nepal
11. Social structure and fertility I: intercourse variables
12. Social structure and fertility II: conception and gestation variables
13. The demographic consequences of social structure: fertility statistics
14. Social structure and mortality
15. The age and sex structure of the Gurung population
16. Resources and population: some general models
Appendices:
1. Census schedule utilized
2. Production and consumption units per household
3. Growth in the number of houses in Thak and Mohoriya
4. Population and the price of land and other goods
5. Household and family structure among the Gurungs
6. Marriage, inheritance and death of parents in Thak
7. Estimates of relative wealth by three Gurungs
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.

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