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Through the compelling force of her narrative, McHugh lets her emotionally open fieldwork reveal insight into the privilege of joining a community and a culture. While it attends to a particular place and its inhabitants, Love and Honor in the Himalayas is, above all, about human possibility, about what people make of their lives. Such was the lesson learned by McHugh, who arrived a young woman facing her own hardships and came to understand-and experience-the power of their ways of being. In mundane as well as dramatic rituals, the Gurungs ever emphasize the importance of love and honor in everyday life, regardless of circumstances, in all human relationships. She intimately describes, with a sure sense of comedy and pathos, the family's diverse experiences of life and loss, self and personhood, hope, knowledge, and affection. Welcomed to call her host Ama and become a daughter in the household, McHugh engaged in a strong network of kin and friendship. As she chronicles the events of her fieldwork, she also tells a story that admits feeling and involvement, writing of the people who housed her in the terms in which they cast their relationship with her, that of family. Love and Honor in the Himalayas is McHugh's gripping ethnographic memoir based on research among the Gurungs conducted over a span of fourteen years. It was in their steep Himalayan villages that McHugh came to know another culture, witnessing and learning the Buddhist appreciation for equanimity in moments of precious joy and inevitable sorrow. This is a book I will teach often, recommend to colleagues, and share with family and friends for its multifaceted delights."-Kirin Narayan, University of Wisconsin, MadisonAmerican anthropologist Ernestine McHugh arrived in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains in Nepal, and, surrounded by terraced fields, rushing streams, and rocky paths, she began one of several sojourns among the Gurung people whose ramro hawa-pani (good wind and water) not only describes the enduring bounty of their land but also reflects the climate of goodwill they seek to sustain in their community.
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"A stunning, emotionally charged, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically crafted fieldwork memoir.
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If, however, you are looking for The Deer Hunter, or Born on the Fourth of July, then you are bound to chuckle at how silly the movie looks or acts.Coming To Know Another Culture Ernestine McHugh If you like watching this kind of stuff on TV, well then you are fine sitting in front of this movie. As a result, the movie seems very much like a 21st century teenage fantasy about what the Vietnam period was like. It is not believable, and attempts at gritty realism seem to simply fall flat. Problem is that our cast has the look of 21st century fashion models, kind of like watching a modern sitcom. The movie occasionally tries to veer into the realm of serious drama related to the anxieties of war time, ala Born on the Forth of July. We get, for example, modest attempts at a realistic period piece problem is that the movie does not seems realistic at all-scenes in Hong Kong were filmed in an airport built in the 1990s, and much of the movie seems like it has no sense of the period. The problem, however, is that Love and Honor occasionally veers off of this course and tries to be more serious. In such movies, the drama does not have to be top quality-we get caught up in the silly story and suspend our disbelief to enjoy the tackiness of the whole thing. This is a movie that is probably best taken as a sort of chick flick (romance burgeoning in an impossible situation) and on that level, it is mildly effective. Love and Honor is a movie that is non-functional on a number of interesting levels, and is therefore strangely entertaining. A problem-both girls are Vietnam protesters, and the fact that Dalton and Mickey are soldiers provides an awkward backdrop to their developing romances. His buddy Mickey, perhaps only looking for a good adventure, perhaps genuinely trying to help his friend, flies back with him, and strangely finds true love himself when he meets a friend of the girl in the house they are living in. Love and Honor tells the story of a soldier in Vietnam, Dalton, who takes extreme measures when he receives a Dear John from his girl back home he jumps his RandR and flies back to Michigan to try to win her back.