| Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World Contributor(s): Desjarlais, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 022635587X ISBN-13: 9780226355870 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Death & Dying - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) |
| Dewey: 294.342 |
| LCCN: 2015039597 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist - Topical - Death/Dying - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Desjarlais, Robert: - 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. |