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Subject to Death
Robert Desjarlais
其他書名
Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2016-06-30
主題
Social Science / Death & Dying
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Religion / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice
Psychology / Grief & Loss
Religion / Buddhism / Tibetan
ISBN
022635590X
9780226355900
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vAsXDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“A detailed, insightful, and at times moving ethnography of rituals around death and dying among ethnically Tibetan Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal.” —
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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.
