In the Circle of the Dance (English, Katharine Bjork Guneratne)

About the Book

Feeling initially aimless and out of place in rural Nepal where she accompanied her anthropologist husband for a year of fieldwork, Katharine Bjork Guneratne turned to writing to make sense of her sojourn in the shadow of the Himalaya. The resulting book is both an acute portrait of a village and an intimate account of her struggles to adapt to a different way of life. Like the best cultural travel narratives , In the Circle of the Dance draws on…

ISBN: 9780801436390