LEADER 04501nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910781617103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21186-6 010 $a9786613211866 010 $a0-8122-0276-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202762 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050979 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000544205 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357479 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544205 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10534406 035 $a(PQKB)10931866 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8313 035 $a(DE-B1597)449132 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491868 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441411 035 $a(OCoLC)759158162 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050979 100 $a20000803d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLove and honor in the Himalayas$b[electronic resource] $ecoming to know another culture /$fErnestine McHugh 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary ethnography 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8122-1759-4 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tThe People -- $tPreface -- $t1. Reaching Tebas -- $t2. Ways of Life Unfolding -- $t3. The Fate of Embodied Beings -- $t4. The Intimate Darkness of Shadows and Margins -- $t5. Paths Without a Compass: Learning Family -- $t6. Creating Selves, Crafting Lives -- $t7. Shattered Worlds and Shards of Love -- $t8. Return -- $tConceptual Context and Related Readings -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAmerican 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 enduring bounty of their land but also reflects the climate of goodwill they seek to sustain in their community. It was in their steep Himalayan villages that McHugh came to know another culture, witnessing and learning the Buddhist appreciation for equanimity in moments of precious joy and inevitable sorrow.Love and Honor in the Himalayas is McHugh's gripping ethnographic memoir based on research among the Gurungs conducted over a span of fourteen years. As she chronicles the events of her fieldwork, she also tells a story that admits feeling and involvement, writing of the people who housed her in the terms in which they cast their relationship with her, that of family. Welcomed to call her host Ama and become a daughter in the household, McHugh engaged in a strong network of kin and friendship. She intimately describes, with a sure sense of comedy and pathos, the family's diverse experiences of life and loss, self and personhood, hope, knowledge, and affection. In mundane as well as dramatic rituals, the Gurungs ever emphasize the importance of love and honor in everyday life, regardless of circumstances, in all human relationships. Such was the lesson learned by McHugh, who arrived a young woman facing her own hardships and came to understand-and experience-the power of their ways of being.While it attends to a particular place and its inhabitants, Love and Honor in the Himalayas is, above all, about human possibility, about what people make of their lives. Through the compelling force of her narrative, McHugh lets her emotionally open fieldwork reveal insight into the privilege of joining a community and a culture. It is an invitation to sustain grace and kindness in the face of adversity, cultivate harmony and mutual support, and cherish life fully. 410 0$aContemporary ethnography. 606 $aGurung (Nepalese people) 606 $aEthnology$xFieldwork 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aGurung (Nepalese people) 615 0$aEthnology$xFieldwork. 676 $a306/.095496 700 $aMcHugh$b Ernestine Louise$f1952-$01563658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781617103321 996 $aLove and honor in the Himalayas$93832226 997 $aUNINA