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Body and Emotion : The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas / Robert R. Desjarlais.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary EthnographyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 27 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812214345
  • 9780812206425
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299/.54
LOC classification:
  • BL2033.5.S52 -- D45 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- 1. Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads -- 2. Body, Speech, Mind -- 3. An Aesthetics of Experience -- 4. Pain Clings to the Body -- 5. Soul Loss -- 6. The Art of Knowing -- 7. Metamorphoses -- 8. A Calling of Souls -- 9. Departures -- 10. Afterwords -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780812206425

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- 1. Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads -- 2. Body, Speech, Mind -- 3. An Aesthetics of Experience -- 4. Pain Clings to the Body -- 5. Soul Loss -- 6. The Art of Knowing -- 7. Metamorphoses -- 8. A Calling of Souls -- 9. Departures -- 10. Afterwords -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

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Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)