Where: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a, George Square, Edinburgh
When: 12.30-1400. Tuesday, 8 Nov 2022
This presentation explores what extensive wage outmigration has done to love in a community of Western Tamang in north central Nepal, where I have been engaged in ethnographic fieldwork since 1975. Where 66% of working-age men, and an increasing 8% of women, no longer live to work in the village, the transformations are dramatic, not only in economic and public community life, but at the heart of people’s intimate relations--with spouses, siblings, and parents. These changes are, of course, rooted in prior, so-called ‘traditional’, relationship values; they also transform them considerably, but not always in predictable or negative ways.
This seminar will be chaired by Dr Josep Chanza, Geography, University of Edinburgh
Key speakers
- Prof. Kathryn S. March, Graduate Professor and Professor Emerita, Cornell University
Partner institutions
- Centre for South Asian Studies and Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh