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People of lower caste live throughout the villages of Nepal but havebeen noticeably absent from ethnographic accounts of the Himalayan region.Starting from the perspective of lower-caste Hindu women, Mary M. Cameronoffers a long-overdue study of artisans and farmers in western Nepal.On the Edge of the Auspicious skillfully shows the connectionsbetween caste hierarchy and gender relations leading to domestic, economic,and religious power of lower-caste women. Situating her study in the historyof land ownership and contemporary family and work relations, Cameronexplains how and why patriarchal ideology associated with high-caste familiesin Nepal does not apply to women of lower caste. Drawing on data fromwork, family, and religious domains, this ethnography goes further thanother current studies of caste hierarchy in South Asia to show the everydaymaterial and ideological dimensions of domination and lower-caste people'sresistance to them..
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Mary M. Cameron first encountered an Ayurvedic medical practice in remote, western Nepal in 1978. In Three Fruits, Cameron traces Ayurvedic medical practices from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley. An intimate portrayal of Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal during a period of political unrest and social change, Three Fruits connects the doctors’ care for Nepal’s valued medicinal plants to the boundless joy of health they desire for their patients. Combining ethnography with history and Indian philosophy, this detailed study weaves the elegant theory of tridosa (three humors) and the popular medicine trifala (three fruits) into the narrative accounts of doctors’ multi-sited practice. Aware of rising global alternative medicine and environmental movements, the doctors speak to their relevance for Ayurveda and sustainable, integrated, and culturally meaningful plural medicine in Nepal. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, Asian studies, history, philosophy, ethnobotany, public health, and environmental studies.