Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home

Ann Armbrecht

December, 2008
Cloth, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14652-4
$27.50 / £19.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Departure

1. Growing Rice

2. Seeds

3. Conserving the Land

4. The Books

5. The Black Box

6. The Barun Fesitval

7. The Bamboo Bridge

Part II. Initiation

8. Stories as Boundaries

9. Gold Earrings

10. Thin Places

11. The Sacred Spring

12. Kelekpa the Shaman

13. Mapping Power

14. Lost Souls

Part III. Return

15. Leaving

16. Baiseti Thuma

17. A Far-Off Place

18. Absence

19. Manguhang

Part IV. Birth

20. Birth

21. Sage Mountain

22. Sacred Stories

23. Listening

24. The Healing Stone

25. The Black Bag

26. Voices in the Land

27. The Waterfall

28. Bare Feet on Wet Earth

Bibliography

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• South Asian Studies

About the Author

Ann Armbrecht is the author of Settlements of Hope: An Account of Tibetan Refugees in Nepal and is coproducing a documentary, Numen: The Nature of Plants. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband and two children.

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