Ernestine Mchugh: 2 books
Love and Honor in the Himalayas
Coming To Know Another Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
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...
Selves in Time and Place
Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998
Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals...