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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主要作者: Desjarlais, Robert R.
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press 2003.
叢編:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 2.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pngq4
書本目錄:
  • 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.