Description |
xii, 342 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Selves in Time and Place: An Introduction / Debra Skinner, Dorothy Holland and Alfred Pach III -- 2. Fate, Domestic Authority, and Women's Wills / Mary Des Chene -- 3. Narrative Subversions of Hierarchy / Steven M. Parish -- 4. Contested Selves, Contested Femininities: Selves and Society in Process / Debra Skinner and Dorothy Holland -- 5. Narrative Constructions of Madness in a Hindu Village in Nepal / Alfred Pach III -- 6. Consumer Culture and Identities in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain" / Mark Liechty -- 7. Situating Persons: Honor and Identity in Nepal / Ernestine McHugh -- 8. Tibetan Identity Layers in the Nepal Himalayas / Stan Mumford -- 9. Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity and Marriage in a Hod Village / Premalata Ghimire -- 10. Engendered Bodies, Embodied Genders / Kathryn S. March -- 11. The Case of the Disappearing Shamans, or No Individualism, No Relationalism / Sherry B. Ortner |
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12. Imagined Sisters: The Ambiguities of Women's Poetics and Collective Actions / Elizabeth Enslin -- 13. Growing Up Newar Buddhist: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhi Maca and Its Context / Todd Lewis -- 14. Selves in Motion / Robert I. Levy |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Ethnopsychology -- Nepal.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Nepali people -- Ethnic identity.
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Nepali people -- Psychology.
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Nepali people -- Social conditions.
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SUBJECT |
Nepal -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116265
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Author |
Holland, Dorothy C., editor
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Pach, Alfred, 1949- editor
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Skinner, Debra, 1953- editor
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LC no. |
98018244 |
ISBN |
0847685985 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0847685993 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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