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Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
Robert Desjarlais
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Description for Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HREX; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists, an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people from Nepal. He studies the death preparations of the Hyolmo, their specific rituals of grieving, and the practices they use to heal the psychological trauma of loss. Desjarlais's research marks a major advance in the ethnographic study of death, dying, and grief, one with broad implications. Ethnologically nuanced, beautifully written, and twenty-five years in the making, Subject to Death is ... Read more
If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists, an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people from Nepal. He studies the death preparations of the Hyolmo, their specific rituals of grieving, and the practices they use to heal the psychological trauma of loss. Desjarlais's research marks a major advance in the ethnographic study of death, dying, and grief, one with broad implications. Ethnologically nuanced, beautifully written, and twenty-five years in the making, Subject to Death is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226355870
SKU
V9780226355870
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About Robert Desjarlais
Robert Desjarlais is professor of anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of several books, including Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless and Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard.
Reviews for Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
A detailed, insightful, and at times moving ethnography of rituals around death and dying among ethnically Tibetan Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal. Desjarlais provides rich descriptions of the Hyolmo's multistage approach to dying, from the prayers and presence of lamas around a dying individual to help the person leave the world without any attachments to the construction of the funeral pyre ... Read more