Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
Online ISSN : 2189-7964
ISSN-L : 2189-7964
The 42nd Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Annual Meeting
Session ID : A-29
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Tourist Industry and the Socially Vulnerable in a Nepalese Caste Society
Contributions of the Thakalis and other Matwari Minorities to Pokhara Tourist Industry
Yuji Yamamoto
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As a legacy of the Muluki Ain, a Nepalese caste system has been observed in Pokhara. Under the present Shastra polity, the Thakalis and other Matwari Minorities are the socially vulnerable in Nepal, but they have made a great contribution to the development of touritst industry in Pokhara. There must be some reasons why they have made it.
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