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Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists(2 Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)

Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists(2 Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)


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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. It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference between the two was remarkable, however, in that Ghang Lama's life had been dominated by motifs of vision, whereas Kisang Omu's accounts of her life largely involved a "theatre of voices". Desjarlais offers a fresh and readable inquiry into how people's ways of sensing the world contribute to how they live and how they recollect their lives.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration Kuragraphy Hardship, Comfort Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision Startled into Alertness A Theater of Voices "I've Gotten Old" Essays on Dying "Dying Is This" The Painful Between Desperation The Time of Dying Death Envisioned To Phungboche, by Force Staying Still Mirror of Deeds Dispersals "So: Ragged Woman" Echoes of a Life A Son's Death The End of the Body Last Words Notes Glossary of Terms References Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
Robert Desjarlais is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is Shelter Blues (1997), for which he won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.

Review :
"One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years...a model of anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline."-Veena Das, author of Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520235878
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 406
  • Series Title: 2 Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
  • Weight: 635 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520235878
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
  • Width: 152 mm


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