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Author:
Armbrecht, Ann, 1962- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88157189
Title:
Thin places : a pilgrimage home / Ann Armbrecht.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xvi, 274 pages : map ; 24 cm
Subject:
Yamphu (Nepalese people)--Hedanga--Hedanga--Social life and customs.
Hedanga (Nepal)--Social life and customs.
Armbrecht, Ann,--1962-
Women anthropologists--United States--Biography.
Women anthropologists--Hedanga--Hedanga--Biography.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-274).
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.
ISBN:
0231518293
9780231518291
0231146523
9780231146524
OCLC:
(OCoLC)226360229
LCCN:
2008023537
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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