Melissa Zermit Namchu
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biography
Melissa Zermit Namchu is a doctoral candidate at the National University of Singapore and the University of Edinburgh, a joint degree programme. She comes from a multi-disciplinary background, with tranings in Political Science (BA, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata), Social Work (MA, TISS, Mumbai) and Planning and Development (M.Phil, IIT-Bombay). She has been working on the Lepcha community for many years and is very keen about ethnographic methods. Her M.Phil thesis was based on the relation between the Lepcha community and organic farming in Sikkim.
Abstract
Abstract : Understanding the use of Lepcha Ethnomedicine in Sikkim and Kalimpong, India