Mesocosm (Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal)

ROBERT I. LEVY (1924-2003 Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal and on the cross-cultural study of emotions. Though he did not receive a formal degree in anthropology, he spent most of his adult life conducting anthropological fieldwork or teaching in departments of anthropology. He became involved in an ethnographic research project in this Society Island (Tahiti), organized by anthropologist Doughlas Oliver. His other major fieldwork site was the Newar city of Bhaktapur in Nepal. He received a number of awards for his scholarly activities. He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In 2001 the Society for Psychological Anthropology honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Among his publications include Tahitians : Mind and Experience in the Society Islands, Chicago : University of Chicago Press (1973).