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Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War (The Ethnography of Political Violence)
Judith Pettigrew
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Hardcover. Maoists at the Hearth details the ways that inhabitants of a hill village in central Nepal managed their everyday activities following the arrival of Maoist insurgents in the late 1990s, exploring their changing social relationships with fellow villagers and the parties to the conflict both during and after the civil war. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HBJF; HBW; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores the daily life in a hill village in central Nepal, during the People's War. From the everyday routines before the arrival of the Maoists in the late 1990s through the insurgency and its aftermath, this book examines the changing social relationships among fellow villagers and parties to ... Read more
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores the daily life in a hill village in central Nepal, during the People's War. From the everyday routines before the arrival of the Maoists in the late 1990s through the insurgency and its aftermath, this book examines the changing social relationships among fellow villagers and parties to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Ethnography of Political Violence Series
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812244922
SKU
V9780812244922
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About Judith Pettigrew
Judith Pettigrew is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Therapies and member of the Centre for Peace and Development Studies at the University of Limerick. She is coeditor of Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal. David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at ... Read more
Reviews for Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War (The Ethnography of Political Violence)
Unpretentious and insightful, Maoists at the Hearth is the very best writing I have encountered on the impact of the Maoist movement in Nepal from the perspective of villagers. An incredible ethnography. -David Holmberg, Cornell University Maoists at the Hearth is a vivid account of human creativity in dealing with the uncertainty and liminality of wartime and people's ingenuity ... Read more