Day: June 24, 2007

Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal (Book)

Book description: “Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/ history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices… The diversity of peoples, recent political transformations, and nation-building efforts make Nepal an especially rich locale to examine people’s struggles to define and position themselves… [T]his collection offers a richly textured and complex accounting of the mutual constitution of selves and society” My […]

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