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Author Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-

Title Thin places [electronic resource] : a pilgrimage home / Ann Armbrecht.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 274 p. : map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-
Yamphu (Nepalese people) -- Nepal -- Hedanga -- Social life and customs.
Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
Women anthropologists -- Nepal -- Hedanga -- Biography.
Hedanga (Nepal) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0231146523 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231146524 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231518293 (electronic bk.)
9780231518291 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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