Selves in Time and Place

Debra Skinner is research assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Alfred Pach III is assistant professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University.Dorothy Holland is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• 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

This book deals, importantly and expertly, with what most other anthropological studies leave out: the individual person. The contributors take large strides towards filling this yawning anthropological gap, including in their analyses a wide spectrum ofethnographic types, from Tarai-dwellers to those living in the highest mountainssss