Description:
A detailed first-hand account-and critical analysis-of the impact of the first contingent of American Peace Corps volunteers to live and work in Nepal in 1962.
Brief description: Dr James F. Fisher has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 30 years on many aspects of Nepalese anthropology. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. Dr. Fisher, having retired from a long academic career in the USA, is now Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at a new college he is helping to start in Bhutan.