Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed: Return to Tarang - Couverture souple

Fisher, James F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9745242020 ISBN 13 : 9789745242029

Editeur : Orchid Press, 2017

Synopsis

Returning to Tarang, a remote village in northwestern Nepal, 44 years after conducting his groundbreaking study there, anthropologist Fisher explores the ways in which modernization and mobility have transformed the livelihood and culture of these once isolated people. Through individual life histories he constructs and analyses the economic and cultural impacts that political, environmental and commercial revolutions in Nepalese society at large have had on the people of Tarang, both transforming their lives and also consolidating and elaborating centuries old societal patterns.

Together with Fisher's original study (Trans-Himalayan Traders), recently republished, this volume will be of interest to social scientists and others focused on the changing South and Central Asian worlds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr James F. Fisher has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 35 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: 9745242020
• ISBN 13: 9789745242029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
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• Personne responsable: non disponible