James F Fisher
Dr James F. Fisher has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 35 years-on Magar village economics and ecology, on education and tourism among Sherpas near Mount Everest, and more recently on a person-centered ethnography of a Brahmin human rights activist. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. Dr. Fisher was Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College for some 38 years-retiring in...See more
Dr James F. Fisher has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 35 years-on Magar village economics and ecology, on education and tourism among Sherpas near Mount Everest, and more recently on a person-centered ethnography of a Brahmin human rights activist. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. Dr. Fisher was Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College for some 38 years-retiring in 2009, he is now Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at a new college he is helping to start in Bhutan. See less
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