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Jim
Fisher (anthropology) received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from
the University of Chicago. His real interest is South Asia, and he has
done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 30 years - on economics
and ecology among Magars (in a village two weeks walk from the nearest
road), 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.
In addition to introductory courses, Jim teaches on South Asia, anthropological
theory, and biography and ethnography.
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