Subject to Death

Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

Robert Desjarlais (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2016
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-35587-0 (ISBN)

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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 an insightful study of how fundamental aspects of human existence—identity, memory, agency, longing, bodiliness—are enacted and eventually dissolved through social and communicative practices.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.07.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-35587-X / 022635587X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-35587-0 / 9780226355870
Zustand	Neuware