Senior Professor and Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Axel Michaels has been researching on Newar rituals in Bhaktapur along with Niels Gutschow. He is also the leader of the project 'Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal' at Academy. Axel has published widely on Nepalese culture and traditions, his latest publication being 'Kultur und Geschichte Nepals' (Kröner 2018) (English translation 'Culture and History of Nepal').

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