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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
2. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520936744 0520936744 0585465967 9780585465968 9786612762796 6612762799 1282762796 9781282762794 |