Selves in Time and Place Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal

by Skinner, Debra; Pach, Alfred, III; Holland, Dorothy; Chene, Mary Des; Enslin, Elizabeth; Ghimire, Premalata; Lewis, Todd; Levy, Robert I.; Liechty, Mark; March, Kathryn S.; McHugh, Ernestine; Mumford, Stan; Ortner, Sherry B.; III, Alfred Pach; Parish, Ste

• ISBN13: 9780847685981
• ISBN10: 0847685985
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781461711421
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-02
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Table of Contents

Note on Transcription	ix	(2)
Preface	xi
Introduction
1. Selves in Time and Place: An Introduction	3	(16)
DEBRA SKINNER
DOROTHY HOLLAND
ALFRED PACH III
Part I. Personal Trajectories	19	(112)
2. Fate, Domestic Authority, and Women's Wills	19	(32)
MARY DES CHENE
3. Narrative Subversions of Hierarchy	51	(36)
STEVEN M. PARISH
4. Contested Selves, Contested Femininities: Selves and Society in Process	87	(24)
DEBRA SKINNER
DOROTHY HOLLAND
5. Narrative Constructions of Madness in a Hindu Village in Nepal	111	(20)
ALFRED PACH III
Part II. Cultural Productions of Identity	131	(108)
6. Consumer Culture and Identities in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain"	131	(24)
MARK LIECHTY
7. Situating Persons: Honor and Identity in Nepal	155	(20)
ERNESTINE MCHUGH
8. Tibetan Identity Layers in the Nepal Himalayas	175	(20)
STAN MUMFORD
9. Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity and Marriage in a Hod Village	195	(24)
PREMALATA GHIMIRE
10. Engendered Bodies, Embodied Genders	219	(20)
KATHRYN S. MARCH
Part III. Politicized Selves	239	(82)
11. The Case of the Disappearing Shamans, or No Individualism, No Relationalism	239	(30)
SHERRY B. ORTNER
12. Imagined Sisters: The Ambiguities of Women's Poetics and Collective Actions	269	(32)
ELIZABETH ENSLIN
13. Growing Up Newar Buddhist: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhi Maca and Its Context	301	(20)
TODD LEWIS
Afterword	321	(10)
14. Selves in Motion	321	(10)
ROBERT I. LEVY
Index	331	(8)
About the Contributors	339