Mark Liechty: 2 books
Far Out
Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world’s last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers—diverse groups of people have traveled there over the years, searching for their own personal Shangri-La....
Selves in Time and Place
Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998
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. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals...