Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal HimalayasBody 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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Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas Robert R. Desjarlais No preview available - 1992 |
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aesthetic altar anger asked attend Bateson bodily body's bombo Bourdieu Buddhist causes ceremony chants Clarke couplet cremation cultural death deities distress divination divinatory dreams drum embodied emotional ethnographic everyday exorcism feel felt funeral Geertz ghosts gods grief gtor Gulphubanyang Gurung harmony healer heart heartache heartmind Helambu household illness imagery images inner instance Karma Kathmandu Khyung Kleinman knowledge Lamaist lamas land Latu Latu's life-forces lives Lopsang lost malaise meaning Meme Meme's Meme's rites Mingma moon Nepal notions Nyima one's Padma's Pasang patient pattern performed person political relations ritual rnam rudiments of form sdug sems sense sensory sentience Sherpa shi dre social songs of pain sorrow soul loss soul-calling spirit spiritlessness srog suffering suggests symbolic Tamang temple tensions Tibet Tibetan tion trance tshe tsher glu tsher ka understand values visceral vitality woman words Yeshi's Yolmo bodies Yolmo experience Yolmo sensibilities Yolmo shamans Yolmo society Yolmo villagers