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- Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Series: Contemporary Ethnography
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.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Note on Transcription
- p. xiii
- Part I. Loss
- 2. Body, Speech, Mind
- pp. 36-62
- 3. An Aesthetics of Experience
- pp. 63-89
- 4. Pain Clings to the Body
- pp. 90-134
- 5. Soul Loss
- pp. 135-156
- Part 2. Healing
- 6. The Art of Knowing
- pp. 159-184
- 7. Metamorphoses
- pp. 185-197
- 8. A Calling of Souls
- pp. 198-222
- 9. Departures
- pp. 223-243
- 10. Afterwords
- pp. 244-254
- Glossary of Terms
- pp. 277-280
- References
- pp. 281-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780812206425
Related ISBN(s)
9780812214345
MARC Record
OCLC
44962341
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1993
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