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1 online resource (293 pages) |
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text file |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-
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Armbrecht, Ann, 1962- |
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Yamphu (Nepalese people) -- Nepal -- Hedanga -- Social life and customs.
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Yamphu (Nepalese people) |
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Nepal -- Hedanga. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Women anthropologists -- Nepal -- Hedanga -- Biography.
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Women anthropologists. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Hedanga (Nepal) -- Social life and customs.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231146531 |
| ISBN |
9780231518291 (electronic book) |
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0231518293 (electronic book) |
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0231146523 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780231146524 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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