LEADER 04224nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910458321503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-79644-5 010 $a9786612796449 010 $a0-231-51829-3 024 7 $a10.7312/armb14652 035 $a(CKB)2560000000051959 035 $a(EBL)908284 035 $a(OCoLC)671298199 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000443279 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12191125 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443279 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10455647 035 $a(PQKB)11041415 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908284 035 $a(DE-B1597)458609 035 $a(OCoLC)829750818 035 $a(OCoLC)979739369 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231518291 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10419626 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL279644 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000051959 100 $a20080530d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThin places$b[electronic resource] $ea pilgrimage home /$fAnn Armbrecht 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14653-1 311 $a0-231-14652-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-274). 327 $aGrowing 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. 330 $aThin 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 1990'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 held a wisdom about living on the earth that the industrialized West had forgotten. What Armbrecht found instead were men and women who shared her restlessness, people also driven by the feeling that there must be more to life than they could find in their village. "We each blamed our dissatisfaction on something in the world," she writes, "not something in ourselves or in the stories we told ourselves about that world. If only we lived elsewhere, then we would be at home." Charting Armbrecht's travels in the mountains of Nepal and in the United States and her disintegrating marriage back home, Thin Places is ultimately an exploration not of the sacred far-off but of the sacredness of places that are between the internal and external landscape, the self and others, and the self and the land. She finds that home is not a place where we arrive but a way of being in place, wherever that place may be. Along the way, Armbrecht explores the disconnections in our most intimate relationships, how they stem from the same disconnections that create our destruction of the land, and how one cannot be healed without attending to the other. 606 $aYamphu (Nepalese people)$zNepal$zHedanga$xSocial life and customs 606 $aWomen anthropologists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aWomen anthropologists$zNepal$zHedanga$vBiography 607 $aHedanga (Nepal)$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aYamphu (Nepalese people)$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aWomen anthropologists 615 0$aWomen anthropologists 676 $a305.89549 700 $aArmbrecht$b Ann$f1962-$01038352 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458321503321 996 $aThin places$92459877 997 $aUNINA