Naomi Bishop (California State University, Northridge)

submitted: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:17:39 +0800 (PST)

Professor Naomi Bishop
Chair, Department of Anthropology
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA  91330-8244  USA

phones: 818-885-3331 (office)
        818-704-9538 (residence)
fax:    818-885-2873
email:  nbishop@huey.csun.edu

Description of work:

I am an anthropologist; a biological or physical anthropologist by
training who is currently doing work in the field of cultural ecology in a
Sherpa village in Helambu (Yolmo), Nepal.  My research interests include
Himalayan ecology, cultural and environmental conservation and
preservation, National Parks in South Asia, human ecology, yak and
yak-hybrids, Sherpa and related Tibetan groups, Tibetan Buddhism, and
primates of South Asia.  I am currently president of the Nepal Studies
Association, an international group of scholars and others interested in
the Himalayan region.