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Author Desjarlais, Robert R.

Title Body and emotion : the aesthetics of illness and healing in the Nepal Himalayas / Robert R. Desjarlais
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xii, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Series Series in contemporary ethnography
Series in contemporary ethnography.
Summary This book 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, the author served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal. [publisher]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-295) and index
Subject Shamanism -- Helmu region, Nepal
Shamanism -- Nepal -- Helmu Region
Shamanism -- Nepal -- Helmu.
Sherpa (Nepalese people) -- Religion.
SUBJECT Helmu (Nepal) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85207670 -- Religious life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007603
Helmu Region (Nepal) -- Religious life and customs
Helmu region, Nepal -- Religious life and customs
LC no. 92023545
ISBN 081221434X (paper)
081223166X (acid-free paper)