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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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
2003.
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| سلاسل: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pngq4 |
| الملخص: | 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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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9780520936744 0520936744 0585465967 9780585465968 9786612762796 6612762799 1282762796 9781282762794 0520235886 9780520235885 0520235878 9780520235878 |