Elizabeth Enslin: 2 books
While the Gods Were Sleeping
A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married life, birth, and childrearing in a foreign culture, she discovered as much...
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...