ISBN:
0231146523
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9780231146524
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 274 p)
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map
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Thin Places : A Pilgrimage Home
DDC:
305.89549
Keywords:
Armbrecht, Ann
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Women anthropologists Biography
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Yamphu (Nepalese people) Social life and customs
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Women anthropologists Biography
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Women anthropologists - Nepal - Hedanga
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Hedanga (Nepal) Social life and customs
Abstract:
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. What Armbrecht fou
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; Part 2; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; Part 3; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; Part 4; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; Bibliography
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-274)
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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