Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Edited Debra Skinner, Alfred PachIII and Dorothy Holland. Afterword by Robert I. Levy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998. xii, 342 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Abstract

Chapter 1 Note on Transcription Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Selves in Time and Place: An Introduction Part 5 Part I. Personal Trajectories Chapter 6 Fate, Domestic Authority, and Women's Wills Chapter 7 Narrative Subversions or Hierarchy Chapter 8 Contested Selves, Contested Femininities: Selves and Society in Process Chapter 9 Narrative Constructions of Madness in a Hindu Village in Nepal Part 10 Part II. Cultural Productions of Identity Chapter 11 Consumer Culture and Identities in Kathmandu: Playing with Your Brain Chapter 12 Situating Persons: Honor and Identity in Nepal Chapter 13 Tibetan Identity Layers in the Nepal Himalayas Chapter 14 Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity and Marriage in a Hod Village Chapter 15 Engendered Bodies, Embodied Genders Part 16 Part III. Politicized Selves Chapter 17 The Case of the Disappearing Shamans, or No Individualism, No Relationalism Chapter 18 Imagined Sisters: The Ambiguities of Women's Poetics and Collective Actions Chapter 19 Growing Up Newar Buddhist: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhi Maca and Its Context Part 20 Afterword Chapter 21 Selves in Motion Chapter 22 Index