Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
ISBN: 9780812206425
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Shamanism -- Nepal -- Helmu Region; Sherpa (Nepalese people) -- Religion; Helmu Region (Nepal) -- Religious life and customs;

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.

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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