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LeVin, Sarah – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2006
Ethnographic research was carried out in 1997-98 to identify factors that determined school attendance among Nepali women in the Kathmandu Valley a generation ago. Findings indicate that gender, caste, poverty, cultural prejudice, and rural residence prevented a majority from going to school. Of those who went, most, regardless of academic talent,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Ethnography, Attendance Patterns