Selves in Time and Place

Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

AvDebra Skinner,Alfred Pach III,Dorothy Holland

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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 and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts.Contributors to this volume extend this emphasis, drawing upon their ethnographic research in Nepal to examine closely how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. 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. But the authors move beyond geographical boundaries to more theoretical terrain to problematicize the ways in which people recreate or contest certain identities and positions. Various authors explore how people—positioned by gender, ethnicity, and locale—use cultural genres to produce aspects of identities and experiences; they examine how subjectivities, agencies and cultural worlds co-develop and are shaped through engagement with cultural forms; and they portray the appropriation of multiple voices for self and group formation. As such, this collection offers a richly textured and complex accounting of the mutual constitution of selves and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1998-07-02
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt617 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847685981

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Chapter 1 Note on TranscriptionChapter 2 PrefacePart 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Selves in Time and Place: An IntroductionPart 5 Part I. Personal TrajectoriesChapter 6 Fate, Domestic Authority, and Women's WillsChapter 7 Narrative Subversions or HierarchyChapter 8 Contested Selves, Contested Femininities: Selves and Society in ProcessChapter 9 Narrative Constructions of Madness in a Hindu Village in NepalPart 10 Part II. Cultural Productions of IdentityChapter 11 Consumer Culture and Identities in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain"Chapter 12 Situating Persons: Honor and Identity in NepalChapter 13 Tibetan Identity Layers in the Nepal HimalayasChapter 14 Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity and Marriage in a Hod VillageChapter 15 Engendered Bodies, Embodied GendersPart 16 Part III. Politicized SelvesChapter 17 The Case of the Disappearing Shamans, or No Individualism, No RelationalismChapter 18 Imagined Sisters: The Ambiguities of Women's Poetics and Collective ActionsChapter 19 Growing Up Newar Buddhist: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhi Maca and Its ContextPart 20 AfterwordChapter 21 Selves in MotionChapter 22 Index