Out Here in Kathmandu: Modernity on the Global Periphery is a collection of essays examining how Kathmandu engages with, produces, and reshapes global cultural processes. Through an urban ethnographic and historical perspective, the book explores modernity through fashion, food, sex, love, mass media, caste, gender, and class. It traces the development of Nepal’s middle-class culture and its connections to changing ideas of modern life, offering a focused study of contemporary Kathmandu and the social conditions that shape its urban experience.

Why You Should Read?

• Explores Kathmandu as an active site of global cultural exchange rather than a passive recipient of outside influences.
• Examines the connections between modernity, middle-class culture, consumption, and Nepal’s social history.
• Brings urban practices involving fashion, food, media, gender, caste, class, sex, and love into one analytical collection.
• Offers a valuable perspective for readers interested in anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, and contemporary Nepal.

About the Author

Mark Liechty is the author of this collection of essays on Kathmandu, Nepalese middle-class culture, and modernity on the global periphery. His work here combines ethnographic attention with historical and anthropological analysis to examine urban cultural practices and the social processes through which modernity is experienced and reproduced in Nepal.