Home Institution
Middlebury College
Publication Date
Spring 2016
Abstract
This “study” explores two central topics: 1.) The logistics and details of basket weaving as both a skill and a business in Dolpa and 2.) The cultural value of the woven bamboo basket, also in Dolpa. My fieldwork started in lower Dolpa, (Dunai and Bysagar), peregrinated north into the Tarap Valley, and then returned back down to Dunai. From my research I attempt to provide an insight into the way people, of all walks of life in Dolpa, think and relate to this tool (kompa), and then attempt to derive larger moral implications from what I have observed. This “study” is both pragmatic and abstract, a little irreverent and over-earnest. I hope this fusion of styles is not annoying, but rather, makes for an enjoyable, and finally, valuable read.
Disciplines
Anthropology | Art and Design | Cultural History | Environmental Studies | Geography | History | Leadership Studies | Nature and Society Relations | Other Arts and Humanities | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Spatial Science
Recommended Citation
Shaw-Jones, Maxwell, "KOMPA AS A LESSON IN VALUE OR A SEMI-VOYERISTIC APPRECIATION OF THE BAMBOO BASKET IN DOLPA" (2016). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 2403.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/2403
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Art and Design Commons, Cultural History Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Leadership Studies Commons, Nature and Society Relations Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, Spatial Science Commons
Program Name
Nepal: Tibetan and Himalayan Peoples