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Nawa Lab
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The lab visits villages in Nepal to portray ethnic groups, rituals, and the ways language is used.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about norms and action from a Himalayan village
The Nawa Lab studies social and cultural anthropology, focusing on Nepal and the wider South Asian and Himalayan region.
The foundation of the lab's research is fieldwork in Byans, a highland area of far-western Nepal, and the surrounding areas.
The lab has studied social groupings that have been called "ethnic groups" and "castes," changes in rituals, and multilingual language use and translation.
Broadly speaking, the lab is interested in questions about the relationship between norms and action.
Key terms
- Fieldwork
- A research method in which researchers go to the place they are studying and learn about people's lives by listening to them and observing them in their daily lives
- Caste
- In South Asia, a division of society into statuses or groups understood to be determined by birth
- Ethnography
- A detailed written account of the life and culture of a region or group, based on research carried out on site
ResearchResearch themes
Based on fieldwork in far-western Nepal, the lab conducts ethnographic and theoretical research on social groupings, rituals, and the ways language is used. In recent years, it has also taken up the history of livelihoods, the translation of global concepts, and the impact of social movements on villages.
*Illustrative imageEthnography of Society and Ritual in the Nepali Highlands
Based on fieldwork in Byans, a highland area of far-western Nepal, and the surrounding areas, the lab has conducted ethnographic and theoretical research on how social categories such as "ethnic group" and "caste" have come into being, the relationship between changes in ritual and norms, multilingual language use and translation, and language ideology.
*Illustrative imageTracing a Changing Nepali Society
In recent years, the lab has been working on the historical reconstruction of changes in livelihoods and production around Byans; the process by which concepts such as "human rights" and "democracy" are translated and received in Nepal, and their effects; and the impact on village society of movements such as the Maoist movement since 1996.
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- ProfessorKatsuo NawaPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Majestic Mt. Api Himal in Api Nampa Conservation Area, Sudurpaschim” Sunuwargr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ethnography of Society and Ritual in the Nepali Highlands: “Darchula” Dr. Unknown / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Tracing a Changing Nepali Society: “Maoist welcome gate Nepal” Steve Hicks from Liverpool, UK / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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