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.
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"This remarkable book is an extraordinarily sensitive study of the cultural sensibility of illness and healing among Yolmo Sherpas in Nepal. It is a beautifully crafted volume, one of the finest cultural accounts of the interconnection between social categories and bodily experience that I have read."—Arthur Kleinman
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Robert Desjarlais teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless, also published by Penn.
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While conducting fieldwork in the late 1980s among Yolmo Sherpa, an ethnically Tibetan people who live in the Helambu region of northcentral Nepal, I participated in some twenty-odd healing ceremonies as the shamanic apprentice to a veteran "grandfather" healer called Meme (t. me me). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corporeal abode, sensory grounds, par rites, shamanic divinations, forest shaman, rnam shes, ream shes, pain clings, somatic sensibilities, spiritless body, felt immediacies, spirit loss, embodied aesthetics, oracular divination, human sentience, second healing, winnowing tray, soul loss, village hierarchy, life shine, lost vitality, day shines, shamanic healing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yurung Bon of the North, United States, Meme Bombo, While Meme, Clifford Geertz, Tibetan New Year New!
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While conducting fieldwork in the late 1980s among Yolmo Sherpa, an ethnically Tibetan people who live in the Helambu region of northcentral Nepal, I participated in some twenty-odd healing ceremonies as the shamanic apprentice to a veteran "grandfather" healer called Meme (t. me me). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corporeal abode, sensory grounds, par rites, shamanic divinations, forest shaman, rnam shes, ream shes, pain clings, somatic sensibilities, spiritless body, felt immediacies, spirit loss, embodied aesthetics, oracular divination, human sentience, second healing, winnowing tray, soul loss, village hierarchy, life shine, lost vitality, day shines, shamanic healing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yurung Bon of the North, United States, Meme Bombo, While Meme, Clifford Geertz, Tibetan New Year New!
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- Language and the Politics of Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Catherine A. Lutz on page 99, and Back Matter
- A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Dorothy Holland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks on page 213, and Back Matter
- The Anthropology of Experience by Victor W Turner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) by Thomas J. Csordas in Front Matter, and page 179
- Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) by Janis Hunter Jenkins in Front Matter, and page 216
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