Dilmaya's World The Life and Death of a Gurung Woman |
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| Author:
| Harrison, Sarah
Macfarlane, Alan |
| Series title: | The World of the Gurungs Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4973-8105-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.00 |
Book Description:
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Dilmaya was a Gurung woman, born in the village of Thak north of Pokhara in the Annapurna Himalaya mountains in Nepal in 1953 and dying at the age of 42 in 1995. This book celebrates her life as an unschooled, untravelled and very modest yet enormously resourceful and resilient lady. Through film interviews about all aspects of her life, accompanied by several dozen films of her various activities, we can see inside the life of someone in a distant culture. The book focuses on one...
More DescriptionDilmaya was a Gurung woman, born in the village of Thak north of Pokhara in the Annapurna Himalaya mountains in Nepal in 1953 and dying at the age of 42 in 1995. This book celebrates her life as an unschooled, untravelled and very modest yet enormously resourceful and resilient lady. Through film interviews about all aspects of her life, accompanied by several dozen films of her various activities, we can see inside the life of someone in a distant culture. The book focuses on one family, within the context of other books which examine the same village through other films and analyses.