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Anthropology, Anthropology of Consumption, Mass Media, Culture Theory, Globalization, Youth Culture, Cultural
History, Medical Anthropology; Nepal |
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Selected Publications
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Dr. Liechty's
research focuses on the role of global consumer and mass media markets
in processes of cultural transformation and class formation on the
third world periphery. Based on field research in Kathmandu, Nepal, his
work examines the local cultural implications of gradual incorporation
into translocal, and ultimately global political and cultural
economies. Liechty's research considers the relationship between media
consumption and consumer culture in processes of modernization and
class formation in Kathmandu.
Liechty is now moving into a new research project on the history of
global mass tourism. This project will trace the dramatic shift in the
scale and nature of global tourism since the 1960s, with Kathmandu--one
of the early global tourist destinations--as an ethnographic and
historical case study.
His research and teaching interests also include culture theory,
globalization, cultural history, youth culture, and medical
anthropology.
Professor Liechty holds a 50% joint appointment with UIC's Department
of History where he teaches courses on cultural history, world history,
and South Asian history. He is co-editor of the journal Studies in
Nepali History and Society.
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2003 Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2001 Women and Pornography in Kathmandu: Negotiating the "Modern Woman" in a New Consumer Society. In Images of the 'Modern Woman' in Asia: Global Media/Local Meanings. Shoma Munshi, ed. Pp. 34-54. London: Curzon Press.
1998 Consumer Culture and Identities in Kathmandu: "Playing with your brain." In Selves
in Time and Place: Identities, Experiences, and History in Nepal. Debra
Skinner, Alfred Pach, and Dorothy Holland, eds. Pp. 131-154. Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
1997 Selective Exclusion: Foreigners, Foreign Goods, and
Foreignness in Modern Nepali History. Studies in Nepali Society and
History 2(1):5-68.
1996 Taking Liberties: Women's Freedom and Sexual Harassment in Kathmandu. Labour, Capital, and Society 29(1-2):56-84.
1996 Kathmandu as Translocality: Multiple Places in a Nepali Space. In Geography of Identity. Patricia Yaeger, ed. Pp. 98-130. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
1995 Modernization, Media, and Markets: Youth Identities and the Experience of Modernity in Kathmandu, Nepal. In Youth Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Vered Amit-Talia and Helena Wulff, eds. Pp. 166-201. London: Routledge.
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