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Kathryn S March

Professor

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • anthropology, gender and social change in Himalayan Asia
  • the political and economic pressures on local ethnic communities
  • the different ways in which people relate their own experiences and reflections to larger cultural and esthetic frameworks, such as those of ritual, religion and song

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • 2003 Two houses and the pain of separation in Tamang narratives from highland Nepal. IN (G. Raheja, ed.) Oral Tradition: South Asian women’s oral narratives New Delhi: Kali for Women Press.
  • 2002 “If each comes halfway”: meeting Tamang women in Nepal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • 1999 Local production /local knowledge: forced labor from below. (With David Holmberg and Suryaman Tamang) Studies in Nepali history and society 4(1): 5-64.
  • 1998 Engendered bodies, embodied genders. IN (Skinner, D., A. Pach & D. Holland, eds.) Selves in time and place: identities, experience & history in Nepal, pp 219-236. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, Pubs.  Women, hospitality and beer. Reprinted IN (Carole Counihan and Steven Kaplan, eds.) Food and Gender: Identity and Power, pp. 45-80. New York: Gordon and Breach. 1984Weaving, writing and gender. Man 18: 729-744.