Stereotypes, alterocentrism, and alterization in Nepal -- Spirits, shamans, and Englishmen : perception of others in Vīr Caritra, a nineteenth-century Nepalese novel -- Hindu power in a tribunal territory : the cult of Bhume among the Magars -- The enigmatic pig : on Magar participation in the state rituals of Nepal -- Desanskritization of the Magars : ethno-history of a group with no history -- The messianic and rebel King Lakhan Thapa : utopia and ideology among the Magars -- The transgressive nature of Hindu kingship in Nepal -- Regicide and Maoist revolutionary warfare in Nepal : modern incarnations of a warrior kingdom -- "Kill one, he becomes one hundred" : martyrdom as generative sacrifice in the Nepal People's War.