Introduction: Representing Local Histories in the Himalayas by Martin Gaenszle; Memories of Migration: Notes on Legends and beads in Arunachal Pradesh, India by Stuart Blackburn; The Oral History of the Darma Lineage of Indus Kohistan by Ruth L. Schmidt; Local Representations of History and the History of Local Representation: Timescapes of Theistic Agency in the Western Himalayas by Peter Sutherland; Inventing a Past for Inheriting a Future: New Visions of History among the Kirant Intellectuals of Nepal by Gregoire Schlemmer; National Hegemonies, Local Allegiances: Historiography and Ethnography of a Buddhist Kingdom by Brigitte Steinmann; On Local Festival Performance. The Sherpa Dumji in a World of Dramatically Increasing Uncertainties by Eberhard Berg; Conference Report on Tibet and Her Neighbours April 24-25th 2004, Harvard University by Mark Turin