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A feminist foremother: critical essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

scholarship. One of the great pleasures of reading Far Out is that it revives a tradition of historical anthropology that drew considerable interest in the 1980s. Anthropologists such as Bernard Cohn, Jean and John Comaroff, Marshall Sahlins, and George Stocking initiated very productive conversations about the ways history is made and how anthropology as a discipline can contribute to the work of historians. As someone who has achieved a fluency in both of these disciplines, Liechty was in an ideal position to use his study to speak to these broader issues and had he done so it might have extended the analytical purchase of his book and made it of greater use to scholars who are not particularly fascinated with studies of tourism or Nepal. It might have been of interest to hear Liechty’s reflections on what the development of the tourism industry in Nepal stands to teach us more generally about processes of social change, and one would have welcomed a more explicit discussion of what is at stake in writing such a history from an anthropological perspective. These suggestions, however, should not be taken as shortcomings of the analysis itself, for in the end, the author successfully accomplishes what he set out to do. He has provided us with a first-rate cultural history of the development of the Western tourism industry in Nepal, and one that will keep its readers turning the pages.