| Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) |
| Contents |
Growing rice -- Seeds -- Conserving the land -- The books -- The black box -- The Barun Festival -- The bamboo bridge -- Stories as boundaries -- Gold earrings -- Thin places -- The sacred spring -- Kelekpa the shaman -- Mapping power -- Lost souls -- Leaving -- Baiseti Thuma -- A far-off place -- Absence -- Manguhang -- Birth -- Sage Mountain -- Sacred stories -- Listening -- The healing stone -- The black bag -- Voices in the land -- The waterfall -- Bare feet on wet earth |
| Summary |
Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how the Yamphu Rai acquired, farmed, and held onto their land; how they perceived their area's recent designation as a national park and conservation area; and whether-as she believed-they held a wisdom about living on the earth that the industrialized West had forgotten |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-
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| SUBJECT |
Armbrecht, Ann, 1962- fast (OCoLC)fst01931389 |
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Yamphu (Nepalese people) -- Nepal -- Hedanga -- Social life and customs
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Women anthropologists -- Nepal -- Hedanga -- Biography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Manners and customs.
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Women anthropologists.
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Hedanga (Nepal) -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Nepal -- Hedanga.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231518291 |
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0231518293 |
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9780231146531 |
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0231146531 |
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