Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society, and Culture in Northwest Nepal - Couverture souple

Fisher, James F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9745242012 ISBN 13 : 9789745242012

Editeur : Orchid Press, 2017

Synopsis

On an isolated Himalayan hillside in northwest Nepal, the village that was the subject of this groundbreaking study in the late '60s--at the time two weeks' walk from the nearest commercial transportation--was as culturally complex as it was remote. While the villagers were largely self-sufficient, it was the ways in which they still depended on outside forces that anthropologist Fisher analyses compellingly in this work.

Republished almost 50 years after the original fieldwork to coincide with the publication of a recent follow-up investigation by Fisher (Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed), the two volumes provide a fascinating and significant view of the evolution of this once remote culture.

...well researched, well analysed and equally well-written ethnography. The author's style is insightfull and easy-going, with a certain wit and frankness... exceptionally good... Donald A. Messerschmidt, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1986.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr James F. Fisher has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 30 years, on Magar village economics and ecology, on education and tourism among Sherpas near Mount Everest, and more recently, on a person-centered ethnography of a Brahmin human rights activist. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. Dr. Fisher was Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College for some 38 years, retiring in 2009. He is now Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at a new college he is helping to start in Bhutan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orchid Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9745242012
• ISBN 13: 9789745242012
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 242
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