Sensory Biographies - Lives and Deaths Among Nepals Yolmo Buddhists

Informationen zum Autor Robert Desjarlais is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is Shelter Blues (1997)! for which he won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. Klappentext "One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years. A model of anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline."-Veena Das! author of Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India Zusammenfassung Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration Kuragraphy Hardship! Comfort Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision Startled into Alertness A Theater of Voices "I've Gotten Old" Essays on Dying "Dying Is This" The Painful Between Desperation The Time of Dying Death Envisioned To Phungboche! by Force Staying Still Mirror of Deeds Dispersals "So: Ragged Woman" Echoes of a Life A Son's Death The End of the Body Last Words Notes Glossary of Terms References Acknowledgments Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Desjarlais, Robert R. Desjarlais, Desjarlais Robert R.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2003
• EAN: 9780520235885
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23588-5
• No. of pages: 406
• Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjec; Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity; Ethnographic Studies in Subjec
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Nepal, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: death and dying, Physical anthropology, Sociology: Death & Dying, Tibetan Buddhism