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Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(2008-08)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, in this talk I ...
Mystery and Manners: A Conversation with Robert Coles
(University of Michigan, 2006)
Transcript of an interview with and profile of Robert Coles discussing writing, documentary, and views on contemporary America.
Marriage change as moral change: Culture, virtue, and demographic transition
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
Dental development as a measure of life history in primates
(Wiley for the Society for the Study of Evolution, 1989)
Elementary Structures in the Nepal Himalaya: Reciprocity and the Politics of Hierarchy in Ghale-Tamang Marriage
(Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Pittsburgh), 1990-04)
Studying West River: North Dakota Field Letters
(Center for Ethnography of Everyday Life, University of Michigan, 2001-06)
A series of vignettes detailing everyday life among farmers and ranchers in western North Dakota. From ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2000. Detailing ranching and farming life.
Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plains
(2008-01)
This paper explores transformations in ideas of the good person as family member and worker, across generations and in the context of certain loss. The themes addressed include the moral sources of personhood in place, ...
A taste shared: Reflecting John Hitchcock and the good in fieldwork
(Himalayan Research Bulletin, 2002)