Sensory Biographies details the life histories of two Yolmo elders, a women in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu, and a Buddhist priest in his mid eighties known as Ghang Lama.
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Kuragraphy Hardship, Comfort Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision Startled into Alertness A Theater of Voices "I've Gotten Old"Essays on Dying "Dying Is This"The Painful Between Desperation The Time of Dying Death Envisione To Phungboche, by Force Staying Still Mirror of Deeds Dispersals "So: Ragged Woman"Echoes of a Life A Son's Death The End of the Body Last Words
Notes
Glossary of Terms
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Acknowledgments
Index
"One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years. . . a model of
anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline."--Veena Das, author of
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India
Content:
List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration
Kuragraphy Hardship, Comfort Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision Startled into Alertness A Theater of Voices "I've Gotten Old"Essays on Dying "Dying Is This"The Painful Between Desperation The Time of Dying Death Envisione To Phungboche, by Force Staying Still Mirror of Deeds Dispersals "So: Ragged Woman"Echoes of a Life A Son's Death The End of the Body Last Words
Notes
Glossary of Terms
References
Acknowledgments
Index
"One of the most powerful ethnographies in any field that I have read in recent years. . . a model of
anthropological analysis that addresses questions on the cutting edge of the discipline."--Veena Das, author of
Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India