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      Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists

      Robert R. Desjarlais

      Robert Desjarlais’s graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their…

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      Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

      Robert R. Desjarlais

      Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, the author guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance…

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      Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

      Robert R. Desjarlais

      Presents 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.

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      Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless

      Robert R. Desjarlais

      Beautifully crafted, powerfully illustrated with conversation, theoretically important, and almost unique as an ethnography. -Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University

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      Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France

      Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais,Khalil Habrih

      In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating…

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      Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France

      Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais,Khalil Habrih

      In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating…

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