Seeing the Mother’s Face

Authors

  • Aidan Seale-Feldman

Keywords:

Mother, maiti, belonging, flash ethnography, Nepal

Abstract

An anthropologist describes a journey to visit a friend’s mother in Nepal. As she crosses over mountains and valleys with her friends from the village, she considers the meanings of maiti, the maternal home, and what it means to see a mother’s face.

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Published

04-Oct-2024

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Vol. 43 No. 2 (2024): Special Section - Himalayan Flashes: Regional Ethnography in Short Form

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Special Section Research Article

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Seeing the Mother’s Face. (2024). HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(2), 15-17. https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/9101