If Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal
Kathryn S. March
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Description for If Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HRE; JFSF; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462. Paperback, in very good condition.
For twenty-five years, Kathryn S. March has collected the life stories of the women of a Buddhist Tamang farming community in Nepal. In If Each Comes Halfway, she shows the process by which she and Tamang women reached across their cultural differences to find common ground. March allows the women's own words to paint a vivid portrait of their highland home. Because Tamang women frequently told their stories by singing poetic songs in the middle of their conversations with March, each book includes a CD of traditional songs not recorded elsewhere. Striking photographs of the Tamang people accent the book's ... Read more
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Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488276
SKU
KRF0011736
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99-2
About Kathryn S. March
Kathryn S. March is Professor of Anthropology and Feminist/Gender/Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is coauthor of Women's Informal Associations: Catalysts for Change?
Reviews for If Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal
A beautiful ethnography that especially gives younger scholars a profound insight not only into the complexity of village life but more generally into fieldwork methodology.
Anthropology Review Database
If Each Comes Halfway is a beautiful ethnography that especially gives younger scholars a profound insight not only the complexity of village life but more generally into fieldwork methodology. As ... Read more
Anthropology Review Database
If Each Comes Halfway is a beautiful ethnography that especially gives younger scholars a profound insight not only the complexity of village life but more generally into fieldwork methodology. As ... Read more