Body and Emotion - The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

"Body and Emotion" is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.

About the author

Robert Desjarlais teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless, also published by Penn.

Summary

Presents a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Desjarlais, Robert R Desjarlais, Robert R. Desjarlais
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1992
• EAN: 9780812214345
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1434-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 231 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Pape; Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Pape
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories