If Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal

by Kathryn S. March

Book Overview

For twenty-five years, Kathryn S. March has collected the life stories of the women of a Buddhist Tamang farming community in Nepal. In If Each Comes Halfway, she shows the process by which she and Tamang women reached across their cultural differences to find common ground. March allows the women's own words to paint a vivid portrait of their highland home. Because Tamang women frequently told their stories by singing poetic songs in the middle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488273
• ISBN13: 9780801488276
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher