Carleton College Department of Sociology and Anthropology
 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
FACULTY

 

Naran Bilik
Pamela Feldman-
Savelsberg

Jim Fisher
Jerome Levi
Beverly Nagel
Annette Nierobisz
Nader Saiedi
Nancy Wilkie

World map: Fisher area specialty

Jim FisherJim 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.