You should now be standing in front of the Nava Durga Chitra Mandir, Bhaktapur¹s major cinema hall [D]. This path from the tea stall to the cinema hallmarks a major trail in my daily wanderings. In fact, during my fieldwork as a heroic "Duluwa-grapher," I spent much time wandering around the streets of Bhaktapur in what could seem just such idle activity. If people asked me what I was doing, I would reply that I was "just walking around." I would, however, usually show them my notebook so that I was not just "walking around."

     It would seem that such banal, pedestrian knowledges as the experience sof drinking tea and walking around with a group to the cinema hall is a subject unworthy of theorizing. Many would argue that the purpose of doing fieldwork is not to watch films at the Nava Durga Chitra Mandir, but to investigate the Naudruga dance troupe.But in response I would argue that to de -colonize the city, that is to demonstrate how lived tradition actually serves as a effective social formation, it is these very low-level ground experiences that need to be studied. I will refer to the situated experience of the walker as "pedestrian knowledges."