Namma

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Kate Karko's conventional, comfortable upbringing did not prepare her for meeting her Tibetan husband, Tsédup, in Northern India where he was living in exile. They came to live in England and after a total of nine agonising years away from his family he was eventually given permission to travel home as a British Citizen. Kate left her job as a designer on a magazine for life in a tent on the Roof of the World. She was welcomed as one of the tribe, given the name 'Namma, and lived with them on the vast and remote grasslands of Amdo at the far east of the Tibetan Plateau.
From milking yaks to collecting dung, cracking open the ice on the stream to wash each morning and battling with her lack of communication skills, it was a constant éducation in another way to be. She observed the nomads' ancient shamanic rituals and buddhist religious practices and through their worship of nature, she discovered a love for her new environment. The enormous cultural différences she encountered... Tovább

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Kate Karko's conventional, comfortable upbringing did not prepare her for meeting her Tibetan husband, Tsédup, in Northern India where he was living in exile. They came to live in England and after a total of nine agonising years away from his family he was eventually given permission to travel home as a British Citizen. Kate left her job as a designer on a magazine for life in a tent on the Roof of the World. She was welcomed as one of the tribe, given the name 'Namma, and lived with them on the vast and remote grasslands of Amdo at the far east of the Tibetan Plateau.
From milking yaks to collecting dung, cracking open the ice on the stream to wash each morning and battling with her lack of communication skills, it was a constant éducation in another way to be. She observed the nomads' ancient shamanic rituals and buddhist religious practices and through their worship of nature, she discovered a love for her new environment. The enormous cultural différences she encountered often led to a struggle with her identity and a questioning of her western values, but she found comfort in the knowledge that despite the polarity of the two cultures, life with her nomad family was a strangely familiar experience. It was love that had brought her and her husband together and it was love that brought her close to her new family and made her a part of them.
'A compelling read, a rare insight into the daily lives, culture, religious rituals and relationships of a people eking out life on the "roof of the world"' Travel
Kate Karko read Cultural Studies at Portsmoüth Polytechnic.
She currendy mixes writing at home with freelance magazine design and lives in North London with her husband and baby.
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