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Article: Selves in time and place: identities, experience, and history in Nepal.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- December 1, 1999
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SKINNER, DEBRA, ALFRED PACH III & DOROTHY HOLLAND (eds). Selves in time and place: identities, experience, and history in Nepal. xii, 342 pp., bibliogrs. Lanham, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. [pounds]47.00 (cloth), [pounds]19.95 (paper)
This is an attractive and readable volume which all specialists on Nepal should consult. There are twelve chapters, an editors' introduction and an afterword by Robert I. Levy The editors divide the chapters into three sections: personal trajectories, cultural productions of identity and politicized selves. The criteria for placing some of the chapters in one section rather than another are not exactly clear: Steven Parish's ...