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

Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society and Culture in Northwest Nepal Paperback - 2017

by Fisher, James

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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2017. On an isolated hillside in northwestern Nepal the village that was the subject of this groundbreaking study in the late '60's - 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, Orchid Press 2017) the two volumes provide a fascinating and significant view of the evolution of this once remote culture. 242 pp., 19 b&w prints, 10 figures, 5 maps, bibliography, index. Second edition. Soft Cover. New/n/a. 23 x 15 cm..
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  • Title Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society and Culture in Northwest Nepal
  • Author Fisher, James
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Orchid Press, Bangkok
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 001732
  • ISBN 9789745242012 / 9745242012
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.095

About the author

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.

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