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Date: Friday, Sep 19, 2003 |
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Title: 'If Each Comes Halfway'
Life History Work with Tamang Women in Highland Nepal
Speaker: Kathryn S. March, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Feminist/Gender/Sexuality Studies & Asian Studies
Director of Graduate Studies in Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Date: September 19, 2003; FRIDAY
Time: 7:15 PM
Location: William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 105, Harvard University
Refreshments served!!
Synopsis:
For 25 years, Kathryn March has worked with Tamang women in north central Nepal to record and interpret both stories and songs from their lives. This collaboration in a Tibeto-origin, Buddhist, subsistence peasant, ethnic community, on the Nuwakot/Rasuwa border northwest of Kathmandu, has raised (and sometimes answered) questions about anthropological method, ethnographic authority, and the representation of women's experience. Following the exhortation of Setar Tamang--a local woman shaman, singer, and one of the life history narrators--that we should "each come halfway" in our efforts to understand one another, March uses close translations from women's narratives, many photographic slides, and recordings of their songs to try to bring the circumstances and aesthetics of Tamang women closer.
This Chhalphal is based on her book "If each comes halfway": meeting Tamang women in Nepal (Cornell University Press, 2002).
Speaker: Kathryn S. March
Kathryn S. March, as an anthropologist and a feminist, has worked to understand how gender, culture, identity and social change are interrelated. March did her undergraduate at Stanford in linguistic anthropology, followed by two years of graduate study at the University of Washington. She completed her PhD at Cornell in 1979 based on comparative work on Tamang and Sherpa gender. She has worked in Nepal since 1972 in Solu-Khumbu, Helambu, Langtang, Nuwakot & Rasuwa, in addition to working for the Government of Nepal, UN/FAO, Educate the Children (a small INGO), and the Cornell-Nepal Study Program as far west as the Thak Khola and as far east as Dhankuta. She has received support from the National Science Foundation (1972-75), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1975-76), the National Institute of Mental Health (1974-78), the Mellon Foundation (1979-81), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1984-85), the Cornell Society for the Humanities (on several occasions), and--here in Boston--a Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute Fellowship (1984-86). Most recently she was honored as a Cornell Institute of Public Affairs Distinguished Faculty (2003), a Merrill Presidential Scholar Outstanding Educator (2002), an International Women's Day Honoree (2001 & 2003), and Cornell Arts & Sciences Faculty of the Year (2000).
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Venue:
William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 105, Harvard University
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