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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
2003.
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| 丛编: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pngq4 |
| 总结: | 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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| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520936744 0520936744 0585465967 9780585465968 9786612762796 6612762799 1282762796 9781282762794 0520235886 9780520235885 0520235878 9780520235878 |