In the Circle of the Dance : : Notes of an Outsider in Nepal / / Katharine Bjork Guneratne.
Feeling initially aimless and out of place in rural Nepal where she accompanied her anthropologist husband for a year of fieldwork, Katharine Bjork Guneratne turned to writing to make sense of her sojourn in the shadow of the Himalaya. The resulting book is both an acute portrait of a village and an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 map, 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Map of Nepal
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Nak Chaina
- CHAPTER ONE. Monsoon
- CHAPTER TWO. The Circle of the Dance
- CHAPTER THREE. On My Own
- CHAPTER FOUR. Setting Up House
- CHAPTER FIVE. Kathmandu
- CHAPTER SIX. Good Morning, Madam
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Harvest
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Village Walk
- CHAPTER NINE. American Gurau /Tharu Tourists
- CHAPTER TEN. Wedding Season
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Janam-Janam
- Glossary of Tharu and Nepali words