Kathryn March

Source: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/kathryn-march Parent: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/emeritus

Professor Emerita

Research Focus

• anthropology, gender and social change in Himalayan Asia
• the political and economic pressures on local ethnic communities
• the different ways in which people relate their own experiences and reflections to larger cultural and esthetic frameworks, such as those of ritual, religion and song

Publications

Academic Articles

1999 Local Production/ Local Knowledge: Forced Labor From Below. Studies in Nepali History and Society 4(1):5-64.

1983 Weaving, Writing, and Gender. Man, New Series 18(4):729-744.

Books

2002 If Each Come Halfway: Meeting Tamang Woman in Nepal. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (CUP).

1995 Mutual Regards: America and Nepal Seen through Each Other’s Eyes. Kathmandu: Jivan Support Press.

Chapters

2003 Two Houses and the Pain of Separation in Tamang Narratives from Highland Nepal. In Songs, Stories, Lives: Gendered Dialogues and Cultural Critique. Gloria Goodwin Raheja ,ed. Pp 134-172. New Delhi: Kali for Women.

1998 Engendered Bodies, Embodied Genders. In Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Debra Skinner, Alfred Pach III, and Dorothy Holland, eds. Pp 219-236. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

1998 Hospitality Women, and the Efficacy of Beer. In Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Carole Counihan and Steven L. Kaplan. Pp. 45-80. London: Routledge.

In the news

• Nepal expert comments on violent protests in Nepal
• Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars
• Grants fund 22 Cornell teams, community partners
• Cornell's leadership in Himalayan studies celebrated
• Cornell group aids in Nepal earthquake recovery

Courses - Spring 2026

• ANTHR 4910 : Independent Study: Undergrad I
• ANTHR 4920 : Independent Study: Undergrad II
• ANTHR 4984 : Honors Thesis Write-Up
• ANTHR 7530 : South Asia: Readings in Special Problems
• ANTHR 7540 : Problems in Himalayan Studies
• ANTHR 7910 : Independent Study: Grad I
• ANTHR 7920 : Independent Study: Grad II
• ANTHR 7930 : Independent Study: Grad III