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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Kuragraphy
  • Hardship, Comfort
  • Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision
  • Startled into Alertness
  • Theater of Voices
  • "I've Gotten Old"
  • Essays on Dying
  • "Dying Is This"
  • Painful Between
  • Desperation
  • Time of Dying
  • Death Envisioned
  • To Phungboche, by Force
  • Staying Still
  • Mirror of Deeds
  • Here and There
  • "So: Ragged Woman"
  • Echoes of a Life
  • Son's Death
  • End of the Body
  • Last Words.