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 s, 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. 6 rows · Charting Armbrecht's travels in the mountains of Nepal and in the United States and her Brand: Ann Armbrecht. 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 s, 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 Cited by: 8.
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 s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how. Armbrecht, Ann. Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home. New York: Columbia UP, Charting the author's travels in the mountains of Nepal and the US and her disintegrating marriage back home, Thin Places explores the concept of home that exists between the internal and external landscape, the self and others, and the self and the land. Social anthropology Armbrecht, Ann. Thin places: a pilgrimage home. xvi, pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, £ (cloth) Based on the author's experiences of fieldwork in northeastern Nepal, Thin places focuses on 'what it means to come home to a place in a culture without deep ties to the natural world' (xi). The book is written in four.
The ethnographic memoir, Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home, is based in part on my research Nepal and how I continued to explore questions of culture and community after my return home. I was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar documenting the supply chain of medicinal plants in India and have taught Asian Medical Systems, among other courses, at Dartmouth College. Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one. 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 s, 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.
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