Bøger af Robert R. Desjarlais
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- Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless
323,95 kr. "Beautifully crafted, powerfully illustrated with conversation, theoretically important, and almost unique as an ethnography."-Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
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- 323,95 kr.
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- The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
323,95 kr. Presents 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.
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- 323,95 kr.
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- Lives and Deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists
483,95 kr. 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.
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- 483,95 kr.
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- An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
302,95 kr. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, the author guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new 'anthropology of passion.'
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- 302,95 kr.