Phurwa Gurung Awarded Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for his dissertation project, 鈥淩eordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispecies worldmaking in the Himalaya.鈥 It will support his ongoing field research in Dolpo, Nepal, which uses caterpillar fungus (yartsa gunbu) as a lens onto state building processes, indigenous territoriality, the political ecology of conservation, and non-human agency.鈥
He got the announcement of the award at the end of September.
