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Selves in time and place : identities, experience, and history in Nepal

Title: Selves in time and place : identities, experience, and history in Nepal / edited by Debra Skinner, Alfred Pach III, and Dorothy Holland.
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1998], ©1998.

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xii, 342 pages; 24 cm

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Contents

1. Selves in Time and Place: An Introduction / Debra Skinner, Dorothy Holland and Alfred Pach III -- 2. Fate, Domestic Authority, and Women's Wills / Mary Des Chene -- 3. Narrative Subversions of Hierarchy / Steven M. Parish -- 4. Contested Selves, Contested Femininities: Selves and Society in Process / Debra Skinner and Dorothy Holland -- 5. Narrative Constructions of Madness in a Hindu Village in Nepal / Alfred Pach III -- 6. Consumer Culture and Identities in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain" / Mark Liechty -- 7. Situating Persons: Honor and Identity in Nepal / Ernestine McHugh -- 8. Tibetan Identity Layers in the Nepal Himalayas / Stan Mumford -- 9. Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity and Marriage in a Hod Village / Premalata Ghimire -- 10. Engendered Bodies, Embodied Genders / Kathryn S. March -- 11. The Case of the Disappearing Shamans, or No Individualism, No Relationalism / Sherry B. Ortner --
12. Imagined Sisters: The Ambiguities of Women's Poetics and Collective Actions / Elizabeth Enslin -- 13. Growing Up Newar Buddhist: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhi Maca and Its Context / Todd Lewis -- 14. Selves in Motion / Robert I. Levy.

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98018244

OCLC

ocm38966076

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Columbia University Libraries