Thin places
Subtitle: a pilgrimage home
By: Ann Armbrecht.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231146524; 9780231518291
Subjects: Armbrecht, Ann; 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
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Charting Ann 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 - between the internal and the 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Growing rice; title: Seeds; title: Conserving the land; title: The books; title: The black box; title: The Barun Fesitval; title: The bamboo bridge; title: Stories as boundaries; title: Gold earrings; title: Thin places; title: The sacred spring; title: Kelekpa the shaman; title: Mapping power; title: Lost souls; title: Leaving; title: Baiseti Thuma; title: A far-off place; title: Absence; title: Manguhang; title: Birth; title: Sage Mountain; title: Sacred stories; title: Listening; title: The healing stone; title: The black bag; title: Voices in the land; title: The waterfall; title: Bare feet on wet earth.