Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g
Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g
ISBN: 978-0-231-14652-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Thin 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 1990s, 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-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.
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Departure 1. Growing Rice2. Seeds3. Conserving the Land4. The Books5. The Black Box6. The Barun Fesitval7. The Bamboo BridgePart II. Initiation 8. Stories as Boundaries9. Gold Earrings10. Thin Places11. The Sacred Spring12. Kelekpa the Shaman13. Mapping Power14. Lost SoulsPart III. Return 15. Leaving16. Baiseti Thuma17. A Far-Off Place18. Absence19. ManguhangPart IV. Birth 20. Birth21. Sage Mountain22. Sacred Stories23. Listening24. The Healing Stone25. The Black Bag26. Voices in the Land27. The Waterfall28. Bare Feet on Wet EarthBibliography
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