While the Gods Were Sleeping
Regular price
€23.99
A01=Elizabeth Enslin
Author_Elizabeth Enslin
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-WT
Category=WTL
Delivery_Delivery within 2-4 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_travel
Language_English
Price_€10 to €20
Product details
- ISBN 9781580055444
- Weight: 332g
- Dimensions: 138 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Seal Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married life, birth, and childrearing in a foreign culture, she discovered as much about human resilience, and the capacity for courage, as she did about herself. While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal tells a compelling story of a woman transformed in intimate and unexpected ways. Set against the backdrop of increasing political turmoil in Nepal, Enslin's story takes us deep into the lives of local women as they claim their rightful place in society,and make their voices heard.
Elizabeth Enslin grew up in Seattle and went on to earn her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Stanford University in 1990. While a graduate student, she married into a Brahman family in the plains of Nepal. Inspired by local women, especially her mother-in-law, she researched women's organizing, poetics, politics, and agroecology. Her academic essay, "Beyond Writing: Feminist Practice and the Limits of Ethnography," still inspires conversations about feminism and the ethics of research and activism. Enslin returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1995 and earned her living as a high school and college teacher, a grant writer, and an independent consultant. She has published creative nonfiction and poetry in The Gettysburg Review, Crab Orchard Review, The High Desert Journal, The Raven Chronicles, Opium Magazine, and In Posse Review and received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Oregon Arts Commission and an honourable mention for the Pushcart Prize.She currently lives in a strawbale house in the canyon country of northeastern Oregon, where she raises garlic, pigs, and yaks. While the Gods Were Sleeping is her first book. Learn more at elizabethenslin.com.
