The authors have been working among two Tamang populations for the previous ten years and they have been engaged in research in a single Tamang community for over 15 years. As anthropologists, they have worked in many areas, including behaviours surrounding childbirth. Their orientation is toward community based research in which the principal investigators are in close contact with the people they study.
Their data is largely from two widely separated Tamang communities, one in the northernmost Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhading Districtand the other just up the road from Kathmandu in the area surrounding Budanilakantha.
