Jiban Mani Poudel earned his Ph.D. from Tribhuvan University in 2016. He is an assistant professor at Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He is working in the Himalayan people of Nepal. His area of interest is human-nature relations, especially the human dimensions of climate change, and livelihood and its transformation. He has published more than two dozen articles in national and international journals and a few book chapters.

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 2016
• Dessertation title: Farming, Livestock and Climate Change: A Study of Knowledge, Perceptions and Adaptation in the Nhason Valley of Manang
• Master’s Degree in Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. 2002.

• Assistant Professor, Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. (Since 2015)
• Teaching Assistant. Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. (from 2008 to 2015)
• Teaching MPhil leading to PhD program at Central Department of Rural Development and Social Work at TU
• Lifetime Member.  Society for Sociological and Anthropological Association (SASON).
• Member of the subject committee of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University (since 2020)
• Network member of Knowledge for Climate (https://knowledgeforclimate.net) (since 2019)
• Member of Forest Action Nepal, (since 2024)

• 2025. Local observations of climate change in the Dho-Tarap Valley of Dolpa, Nepal. Human Organization. DOI:10.1080/00187259.2025.2468975. (Principal author) (accepted)
• 2025. Changing Weather-World in Nepal Himalaya: Exploring from Anecdotal Narratives. The Geographical Journal of Nepal. https://doi.org/10.3126/gjn.v18i1.77055
• 2024. Caring for standing crops in the Himalayas: embedded notion of saving to save. Ecology and Society 29(4):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15585-290409
• 2024. Rain as a singular object with multiple ontologies among the Gurung in the Nhāson Valley. HIMALAYA: Journal of Nepal and Nepal Himalayan Studies, 43(2):81-96. https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/8048
• 2024. Climate change in outskirts of Kathmandu valley: local perception and narratives. Natural Hazards.120(9):8103-8120 doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06473-9 (corresponding author)
• 2023. Public services delivery in local government: An anthropological insight on state-citizens relationship. (Co-author). Nepalese Journal of Development and Rural Studies, 20(1), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.3126/njdrs. v20i01.64136 (Principal author)
• 2023 Knowledge and practices of breastfeeding among mothers in Mechinagar (Co-author). Sahid Kriti Multidisciplinary Journal, vol 1-71-89. (co-author)
• 2023. Challenges of Consumer Culture and Solid-Waste to the Environment Protection in Pokhara Metropolitan City Nepal. International Journal of Waste Resources. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2124991/v1 (co-author)
• 2022. Farmers’ reading nature’s clues to figure out impending weather. Journal of Weather, Climate and Society, Vol.14(3):801-12. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS- D-21-0174.1 (principal author)
• 2020. The rhythms of life in the Himalaya: Seasonality and sociality among the Gurung people of the Nhāson Valley. International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 4(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41257-020-00036-z
• 2022. Moving yak herds towards tourism: a linkage between yak and eco-tourism in the eastern Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures, Vol 4:46-62. https://doi.org/10.3126/jtha.v4i1.46301 (principal author)
• 2022. Contributions of yak herding to tourism. A case study from Eastern Nepal. Nepal Mountain Academy, Kathmandu
• 2022. Local knowledge and experience as a myth or reality in climate change discourse. Amurta Sanskritik Sampada. Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation, Kathmandu. (Text in Nepali)
  2020. Herding in crisis in the Himalaya. Dhulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 14:28-37
• 2020. Biodiversity in Karnali Province: Current status and conservation. Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment, Karnali Province Government, Surkhet, Nepal (Technical team)
• 2020. COVID-19: Losing sense of collective loss of an individual in society. Keanean journal of arts, VII (1):135-143 (India)
• 2020. Human dimensions to climate change: Insights from case study in the Nhāson Valley of Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures, 2, 42–56.
• 2020. Pond becomes a lake: Challenges for herders in the Himalayas. Practicing Anthropology, 42(2), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.42.2.30
• 2019 Ethno-seasonality and the social life among the highlanders, in Tribhuvan University Journal, 33(1):81-94. https://doi.org:10.3126/tuj.v33i1.28685
• 2018. Pond becomes a lake: Challenges posed by climate change in the trans- Himalayan regions of Nepal. Journal of Forest and Livelihood, 16(1), 87–102. https://doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v16i1.22884
• 2013. Use of Oral tradition as a method in the research of climate change, in Nepalese Journal of qualitative research methods. Vol 5: 98-114
• 2068 B.S. Paleolithic society and culture, in Sahid bimba: smarika. Sahid Smarak College Kirtipur. Pp. 243-248
• 2012. Curriculum of sociology in management and business administration: an overview, Curriculum Development Journal Year 26 No.40. Pp 77-88
• 2012. Testing farmers’ perception of climate variability: a case study from Kathmandu Valley, Journal of Water, Energy and Environment (Special Issue). Hydro Nepal, Kathmandu. Pp 30-34
• 2011. Eyewitness accounts on climate variability and the responses: perspectives from farmers, Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 5: 171-190
• 2011. Landlessness of Kisan: an anthropological observation from Eastern Tarai, Nepal, in SASON Journal of Sociology/Anthropology, 2: 136-157
• 2010. Social and cultural issues in organization and management studies, in Management Avenue. Pp. 16-18
• 2009. Cultural understanding of non-timber forest products among the Bahuban community people of Eastern Nepal, Occasional papers in sociology and anthropology, 11:126-147
• 2008. Population pressure on non-timber forest products and its impact on indigenous knowledge: a study from Eastern Nepal, SASS Journal, vol. III: 47-58

Book Chapters

• 2008. “Change in the adaptive strategy of Kisan and its impacts in their socio-cultural life: an anthropological observation from Eastern Nepal, in Social sciences in a multi-cultural world Proceedings of the International Conference. Kathmandu: Sociological/Anthropological Society of Nepal Pp. 502-514 (Book Chapter)
• 2016. Delineating territory: Local narratives and practices. In Nepali anthropology: New direction and contributions, edited by B. Pokharel, J. Rai ad M. S. L. Tamang, pp. 183-204. Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur (Book Chapter)
• 2018. Anthropology of landslide: An emic perspective from Nhāson. In Contemporary Nepali social and cultural anthropology: A reader, edited by L. P. Uprety, B. Pokharel, J. Rai, S. Dhakal and M. S. Lama, pp.130-150. Tribhuvan University Press, Kathmandu. (Book Chapter)