Lionel Caplan

Note: initial numbers refer to minutes and seconds, numbers at end of sections refer to total number of minutes devoted to that subject.

00.0 Early life and McGill University

02:47 Decides to apply to SOAS, introduction to anthropology (4 mins)

4:35 Description of courses/teachers and decision to work on South Asia (3.5 mins)

9:42 Portrait of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf (5 mins)

15:05 First impressions of Nepal, Kathmandu, going to Ilam (3 mins)

19:18 Main ideas of thesis (2 mins) and turning it into a book (4 mins)

23:24 Description of Limbus, discussion of feelings on fieldwork (4.5 mins)

28:25 Being appoin ted a lecturer at SOAS and teaching (4 mins)

32:04 Second field trip to West Nepal and study of a District Capital (4 mins)

36:40 Descriptions of colleagues: Adrian Mayer, Abner Cohen (5 mins)

41:44 Other influences: Manchester School, some historians (3.5 mins)

44:15 Move from Nepal to Madras City South India

46:35 Being married to an anthropologist (2 mins)

48:12 Work on representations of Gurkhas (2 mins)

50:00 work on Anglo-Indians (1.5 mins)

51.20 The common thread: to give voice to marginalized.