Dr. Kapil Babu Dahal, Assistant Professor, Central Department of Anthropology, TU, Member of Anthropological Society of Nepal, Associate Editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

He holds PhD in Anthropology from Tribhvan University, 2017, Anthropology of Health Seeking Practices and Consultation with Service Providers: A Study among the Women in Nepal’s Tarai. PhD Fieldwork and Dissertation Writing supported by fellowships from The Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and Open Society Foundation (OSF).

Amsterdam Master’s in Medical Anthropology (AMMA), Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2006.

MA in Anthropology (First Class First), Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, 1999.

Dr. Dahal has been involved in teaching and research over the last two decades. He teaches at the MA, MPhil, and PhD levels at Tribhuvan University.

His main areas of interest and expertise are medical anthropology, gender, body, and development. His recent postdoctoral researches are focused on health governance, confrontations between service providers and health seekers, disability, psycho-social health, and uterine prolapse. Dr. Dahal has worked with different national and international organizations, in leading capacities and as consultants, in their applied research.

He has published articles in various international and national journals and books primarily on medical anthropological concerns, imperative for critical anthropological engagement and discourse. Dr. Dahal has participated in and presented papers at numerous anthropological/medical anthropological International and National conferences, workshops, and seminars.

2024, Ethnographic investigation into medical violence in Nepali healthcare facilities. Revista Ciencas de la Salud, 22(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/revsalud/a.12944

2023, Social determinants of health in Nepal: Some ethnographic reflections. Journal of Development Innovations, 7(2): 28-40.

2023, A native anthropologist’s positionality of being an insider/outsider: A reflective account of doing ethnographic research in Nepal. In Uddin, N. & Paul, A. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork (pp. 389-403). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2023, Can biomedicine be considered as an alternative healing? Engaging with the ideas of Gregory Maskarinec. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 17, 21-25 (Special Issue: Tribute to Professor Gregory G. Maskarinec). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v17i02.55719.

2022, Engrained with modernity: commodification, medicalisation, and cross-border medical travel for health care in Nepal. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 9, 128 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01155-y

2021, Experience of teaching Anthropology: Interrogating the Semester System at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 6(1), 17-28.

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