Cardamom and Class (A Limbu Village & Extensions) – Ian Carlos Fitzpatrick

“lan Fitzpatrick has been able to reconstruct the recent history of class formation in the village of Mamangkhe, the out-migration that this has led to, the paradoxical process by which a once multi-caste settlement has become ‘the most traditional Limbu village’, and the ways in which migration, cardamom production, and debt interact and produce class differentiation. This detailed and important ethnography is a worthy successor to the classic works on the Limbus of Lionel Caplan and Philippe Sagant and a significant addition to the corpus of ethnographic works on Nepal as a whole.”