by Emma Martin (Senior Curator of Ethnology, National Museums Liverpool) Objects and their archives make tangible networks and connections that might not be obvious from other sources. These material records connect people, place...

by Kathryn Stam (Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Polytechnic Institute), Katie Reilly, and Mon Ranamagar. The United States accepted 60,000 Bhutanese-Nepali refugees for resettlement starting in 2008. The small population (about 350 people) ...

As the production of Nepal’s hydropower future continues to intensify, more Nepalis are becoming ayojaanale prabhabit manchhe or ‘project-affected people.’ Focused on projects under construction in the upper watersheds of the Trishuli and Tamakoshi rivers, this photo essay evaluates overlapping and uneven pa...

Sam Cowan first visited the historic crossing point between Nepal and Tibet at Rasuwa Garhi in October 2006. He revisited the place in March 2013. In the same month he also visited the existing road crossing between Nepal and the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) at Friendship Bridge to see the changes taking place there and...

Austin Lord is a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, focusing in political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently in Nepal conducting research on changing conditions of mobility in watersheds affected by hydropower development. Prior to ...