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  • Subject to Death

    Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

    by Robert Desjarlais ...
    "A detailed, insightful, and at times moving ethnography of rituals around death and dying among ethnically Tibetan Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal." — ChoiceIf 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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar

    by Robert Desjarlais ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris police responded with deadly violence, by some accounts killing over two hundred people and wounding countless others. One of the victims was Abdelkader Bennahar, who was seriously beaten in Nanterre, a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Robert Desjarlais, Sabina M. Perrino, Joshua O. Reno, Nicholas Bartlett, Aurora Donzelli, Margaux Fitoussi, Alexa Hagerty, Rafadi Hakim, Parthiban Muniandy, Emily Ng ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Imagistic Care

    Growing Old in a Precarious World

    by Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn, Robert Desjarlais, Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Maria Louw, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer0, Helle Sofie Wentzer1, Susan Reynolds Whyte2 ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Blind Man

    A Phantasmography

    by Robert Desjarlais ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the features of a man, apparently blind, who begs for money at a religious site in Paris, frequented by ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Phenomenology in Anthropology

    A Sense of Perspective

    by Michael D. Jackson, Jaap Timmer, Daniel Fisher, Ian Bedford, Robert Desjarlais, Deborah Van Heekeren, Monica Dalidowicz, C. Jason Throop, Lisa L. Wynn, Thomas Csordas, Greg Downey ...
    This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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