%0 Journal Article %T Global-Local Interface and the Anthropology of Nepal %A Prakash Upadhyay %J Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology %P 160-176 %D 2010 %R 10.3126/hjsa.v4i0.4673 %X Globalization, altering role of WTO, expanding markets in Asia and Latin America, the emergence of prosperous middle class with heavy inluence of satellite television and the rise of consumerism has introduced a new transnational class structure. From a theoretical perspective, although deteriorisation is fundamental to understanding globalization, any piece of land can never be completely overcome without winning the heart and mind of the local people. In a context of global-local interface, deteriorisation must unavoidably be escorted by the process of relocalization of the cultures and rtaditions of backward world. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hjsa.v4i0.4673 Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.IV (2010) 160-176 %K Lens %K Globalization %K Ethnographic %K Polymorphous %K Romanticism %U http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/HJSA/article/view/4673