Trans Himalayan Traders (Old And Rare) – James F. Fisher

?The village in the mountains of northwest Nepal which I call by the pseudonym Tarangpur is probably as geographically isolated a community as an anthropologist is likely to encounter today. Yet the ways in which Tarangpur is not economically and culturally self-sufficient are far more interesting than the ways in which it is. This fact led me away from a finely drawn description and definition of Tarangpur society, the delineation of its internal structure, and detailed analysis of its symbolic order, although these are all of course interesting and legitimate topics. My concerns are of larger scale and wider scope. Straddling the larger South and Central Asian Worlds, Tarangpur exemplifies the interstices of the multiethnic society of Nepal, and I therefore attempt to describe and explain Tarangpur’s convoluted and changing integration within those worlds.”
– from the Introduction
Trans Himalayan Traders (Old And Rare) – James F Fisher