I am a socio-cultural anthropologist working in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, India, and China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region. My research explores the relationships between political discourse, ritual action, and cross-border mobility in producing ethnic identities and shaping social transformation. I recently published my first book, titled Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Current research projects include an ethnography of “post-conflict” state restructuring in Nepal, which is now expanding to consider how the 2015 earthquakes have affected sociocultural and political processes of transformation; and an exploration of trans-Himalayan citizenship across the historical and contemporary borders of India, China, and Nepal.

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