This book is an outcome of the three-day international conference which brought Nepali, South Asian, and other international scholars of anthropology, sociology and other social sciences into dialogue about the contemporary issues pertaining to the theories and practices of their respective disciplines. The articles published in this book have covered a wide of social, cultural and development-related issues. These comprise: gender and womanhood, development intervention and forced marginalization; social mobilization and governance; education, health and nutrition; cultural identities and cultural conservation; Maoist movement and its effects; community laws; migration; media and reporting; federalism; climate change and its impacts; natural resource management; production of public knowledge; social and cultural change; disability and suffering; social exclusion; poverty; symbolic violence.