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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Desjarlais, Robert R.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press 2003.
Series:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 2.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pngq4