At Home In The World: Globalization And The Peace Corps In Nepal

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Suitable for all with an interest in globalization, third world development and intercultural anthropology, this title explores the successes and failures of the volunteers in their efforts to have a positive effect on Nepalese development, and also the reverse effects of their transformative experience on the lives of the volunteers themselves. This is a detailed first-hand account - and critical analysis - of the impact of the first contingent of American Peace Corps volunteers to live and work in Nepal, arriving in 1962 just following the reinstatement