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Dr. Stacy Leigh Pigg Associate Professor of Anthropology Dept of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC  V5A 1S6  CANADA email: pigg@sfu.ca Near Nepal’s border with China, a small village sits, island-like, on a tip of land formed by precipitous slopes cross-cut by tumbling Himalayan streams on three sides. The people who live there …

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In recent years, fear of being caught in the crossfire between state security forces and Maoist insurgents and a failing economy propelled Nepalis to sell themselves