# 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](/news/nepal-expert-comments-violent-protests-nepal)
- [Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars](/news/faculty-build-network-community-engaged-teachers-scholars)
- [Grants fund 22 Cornell teams, community partners](/news/grants-fund-22-cornell-teams-community-partners)
- [Cornell's leadership in Himalayan studies celebrated](/news/cornells-leadership-himalayan-studies-celebrated)
- [Cornell group aids in Nepal earthquake recovery](/news/cornell-group-aids-nepal-earthquake-recovery)
## Courses - Spring 2026
- [ANTHR 4910 : Independent Study: Undergrad I](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/4910)
- [ANTHR 4920 : Independent Study: Undergrad II](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/4920)
- [ANTHR 4984 : Honors Thesis Write-Up](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/4984)
- [ANTHR 7530 : South Asia: Readings in Special Problems](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/7530)
- [ANTHR 7540 : Problems in Himalayan Studies](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/7540)
- [ANTHR 7910 : Independent Study: Grad I](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/7910)
- [ANTHR 7920 : Independent Study: Grad II](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/7920)
- [ANTHR 7930 : Independent Study: Grad III](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/7930)