Living Martyrs

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Living Martyrs: The Lives and Works of Tanka Prasad and Rewanta Kumari Acharya
James F. Fisher
2018, pp. xvi+420

Fisher’s book is an attempt to capture the lives and stories of perhaps one of the most important and also most underplayed characters in the history of modern Nepal. Tanka Prasad Acharya and his wife Rewanta Kumari Acharya … [Fisher] is wary of homogenizing meta-narratives, which tend to engulf the multiplicity and heterogeneity of the life-worlds inhabited by individuals in our multicultural universe … An excellent example of Geertzian ‘cases and interpretations’. A must read for anyone with any interest in Nepali society and politics.
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James F. Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Carleton College, in Northfield, MN. After two years (1962-1964) as a member of the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In following years he studied Magars in Dolpo, Sherpas in Khumbu (while participating in the construction of Lukla airport), political history associated with Tanka Prasad Acharya, and globalization.