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Selves in Time and Place - Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal (Hardcover)
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Selves in Time and Place - Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal (Hardcover)
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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.
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