Please join us for our Autumn 2017 Nepal Studies Initiative Speaker Series lecture, "Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed", with Dr. James Fisher! Wednesday, December 6, 2017; 6-7:30pm
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Monday, December 4 - LIMITED SPACE Please email uwnepal@uw.edu with questions. Jointly hosted by the University of Washington Nepal Studies Initiative and University of Washington - Anthropology. In this lecture, Anthropologist James Fisher will discuss his return to Tarang, a remote village in northwest Nepal, 44 years after his groundbreaking book Trans-Himalayan Traders was published. In his new book, Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed, Fisher explores how forms of modernity and mobility have transformed the livelihood and culture of Tarang communities. Through deep, individual life histories he constructs and analyzes the economic and cultural impacts that political, environmental and commercial revolutions in Nepalese society have had on the people of Tarang, both transforming their lives and also consolidating and elaborating centuries-old societal patterns. |