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8 produkter
Sensory Biographies
Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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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 …
Counterplay
An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Häftad, 2011
235 kr
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"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to …
Traces of Violence
Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France
Av Robert R. Desjarlais, Khalil Habrih
Inbunden, 2021
847 kr
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In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial …
Traces of Violence
Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France
Av Robert R. Desjarlais, Khalil Habrih
Häftad, 2021
316 kr
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In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial …
Body and Emotion
The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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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 …
Shelter Blues
Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people.While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us. What must life be like for those who, in addition to living on the street, hear voices, suffer …
Body and Emotion
The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
Häftad, 1992
388 kr
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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 …
Shelter Blues
Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless
Häftad, 1997
388 kr
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Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people.While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us. What must life be like for those who, in addition to living on the street, hear voices, suffer …
