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Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists /

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. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Desjarlais, Robert R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.
Colección:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 396 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520936744
0520936744
0585465967
9780585465968
9786612762796
6612762799
1282762796
9781282762794