Program: Health Concerns of One Dalit Community in Nepal
Details
Join us for Professor Steve Folmar's presentation focusing on understanding the health concerns of one Dalit community in Nepal and his role in addressing those concerns.
Parkway United Church of Christ
1465 Irving Street · Winston-Salem, us
Social time at 6:30, announcements at 7:00 followed by our program.
Steve Folmar is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. He earned his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1985. He began conducting research in Nepal in 1979 and continues to this day. Since 2001, he has committed his research to issues affecting Dalit people, those that are the most severely marginalized. Over the past decade and a half, he has increasingly used his research to serve Dalit communities directly. Relevant publications include Identity Politics among Dalits in Nepal (Himalaya 2009), Being, Becoming, Belonging: The Paradox of Identity and Mental Suffering among Nepal’s Dalits (CNS 2019) and Addressing Dalit Wellbeing through Counter Ritual in Handbook of the Himalayas: Environments, Developments, and Wellbeings, Ben Campbell, Mary Cameron and Tanka Subha, eds. Routledge.