Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal

by William F. Fisher

More than an ethnography, this book clarifies one of the most important current debates in anthropology: How should anthropologists regard culture, history, and the power process?

Since the 1980s, the Thakali of Nepal have searched for an identity and a clarification of their "true" culture and history in the wake of their rise to political power and achievement of economic success. Although united in this search, the Thakali are divided...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231110871
• ISBN13: 9780231110877
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"