Love and Honor in the Himalayas : : Coming To Know Another Culture / / Ernestine McHugh.
American anthropologist Ernestine McHugh arrived in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains in Nepal, and, surrounded by terraced fields, rushing streams, and rocky paths, she began one of several sojourns among the Gurung people whose ramro hawa-pani (good wind and water) not only describes the en...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- The People
- Preface
- 1. Reaching Tebas
- 2. Ways of Life Unfolding
- 3. The Fate of Embodied Beings
- 4. The Intimate Darkness of Shadows and Margins
- 5. Paths Without a Compass: Learning Family
- 6. Creating Selves, Crafting Lives
- 7. Shattered Worlds and Shards of Love
- 8. Return
- Conceptual Context and Related Readings
- Index
- Acknowledgments