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 [flickr:3335667580/]On Thursday, March 12, 7 PM, Brooks Memorial Library will host American
social anthropologist Dr. Ann Armbrecht, who will discuss her recent book,
Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home, in the library's Main Reading Room.
A "thin place" is a place where two worlds meet, usually the mundane and the
spiritual worlds. During the 1990s, Dr. Armbrecht made several trips to
northeastern Nepal to research the relationship between Yamphu Rai farmers
and their land use in an area recently designated as a national park and
conservation area; and whether-as she believed-they held wisdom about living
on the earth that the industrialized West had forgotten.
Ann Armbrecht is an anthropologist who received her Ph D from Harvard
University and is the author of Settlements of Hope: An Account of Tibetan
Refugees in Nepal. She is currently co-producing a documentary, Numen: The
Nature of Plants. She has taught at Dartmouth College and Harvard University
and lives in Montpelier, Vermont with her husband and two children.
Contact:802-254-5290 ext 101
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