Description: Anthropologist Fisher returns to Tarang in northwestern Nepal, 44 years after conducting his groundbreaking study there, to document and analyse the impact of modernization on a once-isolated people.
Brief description: 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.