Thin Places : a Pilgrimage Home.

Thin Places : a Pilgrimage Home.

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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Armbrecht, Ann, > 1962-
Yamphu (Nepalese people) > Nepal > Hedanga > Social life and customs.
Women anthropologists > Nepal > Hedanga > Biography.
Hedanga (Nepal) > Social life and customs.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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