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Subject/Item: Women Studies
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 | | ISBN: 8173032130 | | Title: Aama In America : A Pilgrimage of The Heart | | Author: Broughton Coburn | | Edition Year: 2000 | | Cover: Paperback | | Subject: Women Studies | | Language: English | | Abstract: Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepali village, was living high in the Himalayas when she befriended American Peace Corps worker, Broughton Coburn, in 1974. In 1988 Aama came to visit him on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the eightyfour year old, fourfooteight woman to earn merit by making a difficult journey late in life. Aama in America is a vivid chronicle of what became a 25 state, coasttocoast adventure. Guided by the perpetual curiosity and deeply spiritual orientation of their ingenious, unpredictable travel companion, Coburn and his fiancee gradually began to view their country from an entirely new perspective. Beneath the uniform commercial, manmade epidermis of our country, Coburn writes, Aama found a culture and a landscape that was alive and sacred and she steered us toward it. Aama in America is on one level an offbeat American travelogue. But on another it is a profound exploration of beliefs, value and lost spirituality, a rediscovery of the spirituality that lies beneath the surface of America, and a singular account of the meeting of two widely divergent cultures. | | Remarks: B&W Photos | | Edition: Reprint | | Pages: 304 | | Size(mm): 135 X 205 | | Weight(grams): 300 | | Price: US$ 5.95 | |
|  | | ISBN: 8177694510 | | Title: Bending Bamboo, Changing Winds: Nepali Women Tell Their Life Stories | | Author: Eva Kipp | | Edition Year: 2006 | | Cover: Paperback | | Subject: Women Studies | | Language: English | | Abstract: In modern Nepalese society many changes influencing women are taking place. From personal stories and interviews with women representing the varied ethnic groups and castes found in Nepal, this impressive book dramatically captures what village women think about the different aspects of their lives and the changes that are taking place. The stories and beautiful photographs reveal a wealth of information and a rare glimpse into the thoughts, beliefs, worries and pleasures of Nepali women today. With contributions from Kim Hudson, Lucia de Vries, Marieka van Vliet and Alieke Barmentloo.
Interesting insight - Hugh Finlay, Nepal (Lonely Planet) This book ... is about the hopes, fears and lives of seventeen Nepali women from different walks of life. Its a story of the Nepali dream, a Bible of their misery and an epic of their success story.... They tell you the story of their family, society and, above all, their own ups and downs in life that was not told before. - Sarad Pradhan, Kathmandu Post. | | Remarks: Text & Colour Photographs on Art Paper | | Edition: Reprint | | Pages: 176 | | Size(mm): 242 X 177 | | Weight(grams): 510 | | Price: US$ 16.00 | |
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