Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas by Desjarlais, Robert R.

Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of...
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Author: Robert R. Desjarlais
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Language: English
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Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas by Desjarlais, Robert R.

Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

CHF 61.02

Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

CHF 61.02
Author: Robert R. Desjarlais
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Robert R. Desjarlais
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/01/1992
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780812214345

About the Author
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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