By examining three historically overlapping productive processes — subsistence agriculture, cardamom cultivation, and international migration — this book shows how each productive process has contributed in different ways to the acceleration of economic differentiation and rural class formation. In particular it focuses on cardamom, introduced to the village in 1968, which as a highvalue cash-crop has provided a means to transform significantly the lives of a large section of Limbu society.

Despite the increased integration of the village with a national and global market, the continued existence of Limbu language and cultural practises emphasizes the active role villagers have played in shaping their current condition.

“Ian Fitzpatrick has been able to reconstruct the recent history of class formation in the village of Mamangkhe, the out-migration that this has led to, the paradoxical process by which a once multi-caste settlement has become ‘the most traditional Limbu village’, and the ways in which migration, cardamom production, and debt interact and produce class differentiation. This detailed and important ethnography is a worthy successor to the classic works on the Limbus of Lionel Caplan and Philippe Sagant and a significant addition to the corpus of ethnographic works on Nepal as a whole.”
Professor David N. Gellner, University of Oxford

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Store Description

Buyers may make prior appointment to view stock.

Visit Seller's Storefront

Seller's business information

Yak and Yeti Books
CO, U.S.A.

Sale & Shipping Terms

Terms of Sale

Payment must be made in advance by PayPal, check drawn on U.S. bank, or money order. Books may be
returned for a full refund within one week of receipt.

Shipping Terms

Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. The U.S. Post Office now charges $49.95 for a book or books weighing a total of 4 pounds or more to be sent overseas. Surface mail is not available.