Robert Desjarlais
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 619124 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Desjarlais |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Desjarlais |
| ASSINATURA | DESJARLAIS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Sarah Lawrence College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 402 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Dust piles on fire
Anthropology in a Mode of Dying
Traces of Violence
Traces of Violence
The Years of Living Transformatively
Sur les traces de la violence
Que se passe-t-il lorsque la violence sème le chaos ? Dans la nuit du 13 novembre 2015, la ville de Paris est ainsi dévastée par une série d’attentats, les attentats-suicides au Stade de France, l’attaque du Bataclan, et les fusillades dans plusieurs bars et restaurants. À l’été 2016, l’anthropologue Robert Desjarlais se rend à Paris. Il commence à réfléchir sur l’intensité des attentats et les effets de la violence sur la vie et l’histoire de la…
Picturing homelessness
Sensory Biographies
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 lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along …
Phantasmography
Subject to Death
Liberation upon Hearing
This essay considers morally salient dimensions of dying, death, and mourning among Yolmo Buddhists of Nepal. It attends in particular to certain procedures of speech, touch, vision, and bodily and vocal guidance and copresence in times of dying and grief. An ethics of care informs the ways in which people comfort the dying and console the grief stricken. The moral responsibility that people observe here is a question of support and guidance, of …
Commentary
In this comment I consider the generative tensions between phenomenological and psychodynamic approaches in anthropology. I propose several reasons for the recent interest in phenomenological perspectives, and suggest several ways that there might be a productive interplay between the two approaches. [phenomenology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, subjectivity, intersubjectivity
Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology
This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, and address the ways in which they have contributed to analytic perspectives employed in anthropology. This article canvasses phenomenologically oriented research in anthropology on a number of topics, including…
Death, mourning, and burial
So
This article inquires into the aesthetics and ethics of skilled talk and action among Nepal's Yolmo people, especially as they related to life history research I conducted in the late 1990s with Kisang Omu, an elderly Yolmo woman who resided then in Kathmandu, Nepal. In talking with Kisang about various aspects of her life, it became clear to me that she was greatly concerned about the quality of her talk, whether it was `good' or `not good'. Oth…
Culture and Consciousness in South Asia
Echoes of a Yolmo Buddhist's Life, in Death
The Makings of Personhood in a Shelter for People Considered Homeless and Mentally III
This paper is about the pragmatic makings of identity and personhood in a Boston shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill. Drawing upon the philosophical writings of Amelie Rorty, it examines the ways in which the words and actions of shelter residents and staff effected certain discourses of selfhood and personhood. In the course of their everyday engagements with staff and others, residents took the form of or were quietly depict…
Bodies and Persons
Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Michael Fambek and Andrew Strathern. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii. 298 pp., illustrations, contributors, bibliography, index
Shelter Blues
Shelter Blues is an innovative portrait of people residing in Boston's Station Street Shelter. It examines the everyday lives of more than 40 homeless men and women of various ethnicities, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Based on a sixteen-month study, it draws readers into the personal worlds of these individuals and, by addressing the intimacies of homelessness, illness, and abjection, picks up where most scholarship and journalism st…
Violence and well-being
At Home in the World
At Home in the World
At Home in the World. Michael Jackson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. 188 pp
Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma
The Office of Reason
An ethnographic study of the words and actions common to a shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill shows how distinct forms of reasoning and personal agency relate to a set of practical concerns and political exigencies. Whereas the shelter's staff rely on and promote a referential language and direct, active forms of agency, its residents depend on tactical, persuasive uses of language and oblique, reactive forms of agency. Yet b…
Body and Emotion
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.
Struggling Along
An ethnographic study of a shelter in downtown Boston for people considered homeless and mentally ill documents the way in which the category of "experience," which many have taken to be universal and natural, is culturally and historically constituted. The residents of the shelter tend not to experience-defined here as an inwardly reflexive process that proceeds, coheres, and transforms through temporally integrative forms-but rather "struggle a…
Sensory Biographies
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 lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along …
Subject to Death
Bodies and Persons
Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Michael Fambek and Andrew Strathern. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii. 298 pp., illustrations, contributors, bibliography, index
The Office of Reason
An ethnographic study of the words and actions common to a shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill shows how distinct forms of reasoning and personal agency relate to a set of practical concerns and political exigencies. Whereas the shelter's staff rely on and promote a referential language and direct, active forms of agency, its residents depend on tactical, persuasive uses of language and oblique, reactive forms of agency. Yet b…
The Makings of Personhood in a Shelter for People Considered Homeless and Mentally III
This paper is about the pragmatic makings of identity and personhood in a Boston shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill. Drawing upon the philosophical writings of Amelie Rorty, it examines the ways in which the words and actions of shelter residents and staff effected certain discourses of selfhood and personhood. In the course of their everyday engagements with staff and others, residents took the form of or were quietly depict…
Healing through Images
Violence and well-being
Liberation upon Hearing
This essay considers morally salient dimensions of dying, death, and mourning among Yolmo Buddhists of Nepal. It attends in particular to certain procedures of speech, touch, vision, and bodily and vocal guidance and copresence in times of dying and grief. An ethics of care informs the ways in which people comfort the dying and console the grief stricken. The moral responsibility that people observe here is a question of support and guidance, of …
Violence and Demoralization in the New World Disorder
Etude des consequences de la violence dans les Etats non seulement du point de vue de l'individu mais aussi du point de vue de l'Etat lui-meme. L'absence de controle de cette violence supprime toute morale. L'opposition Etat-Individu n'est plus de mise
Echoes of a Yolmo Buddhist's Life, in Death
Yolmo aesthetics of body, health and 'soul loss
Commentary
In this comment I consider the generative tensions between phenomenological and psychodynamic approaches in anthropology. I propose several reasons for the recent interest in phenomenological perspectives, and suggest several ways that there might be a productive interplay between the two approaches. [phenomenology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, subjectivity, intersubjectivity
Dreams, divination, and Yolmo ways of knowing
Phantasmography
Some Causes and Cultures of Homelessness
Ni patients ni victimes
Pour une ethnographie de la violence politique L'association américaine de psychiatrie appréhende la violence politique faite aux personnes à travers la catégorie de syndrome post-traumatique. Sans nier l'utilité des soins que le médecin dispense, on notera que cette médicalisation de la souffrance transforme les personnes en malades et laisse de côté la dimension sociale du traumatisme. À l'inverse, l'ethnographie de la violence politique s'inté…
Healing through Images
Poetic transformations of yolmo ?sadness
Dreams, divination, and Yolmo ways of knowing
Yolmo aesthetics of body, health and 'soul loss
Body and Emotion
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.
Ni patients ni victimes
Pour une ethnographie de la violence politique L'association américaine de psychiatrie appréhende la violence politique faite aux personnes à travers la catégorie de syndrome post-traumatique. Sans nier l'utilité des soins que le médecin dispense, on notera que cette médicalisation de la souffrance transforme les personnes en malades et laisse de côté la dimension sociale du traumatisme. À l'inverse, l'ethnographie de la violence politique s'inté…
Body and Emotion
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
Violence and Demoralization in the New World Disorder
Etude des consequences de la violence dans les Etats non seulement du point de vue de l'individu mais aussi du point de vue de l'Etat lui-meme. L'absence de controle de cette violence supprime toute morale. L'opposition Etat-Individu n'est plus de mise
Struggling Along
An ethnographic study of a shelter in downtown Boston for people considered homeless and mentally ill documents the way in which the category of "experience," which many have taken to be universal and natural, is culturally and historically constituted. The residents of the shelter tend not to experience-defined here as an inwardly reflexive process that proceeds, coheres, and transforms through temporally integrative forms-but rather "struggle a…
The Bridge People
World Mental Health
This book describes the burden of mental, behavioural, and social health problems in low-income countries, illuminates the reasons for the substantial morbidity rates, assesses current efforts to cope with these conditions, and points to ways to alleviate and, where feasible, prevent them. It provides a framework for international policy-makers to develop a concrete agenda for action and for further research on mental and social health.
On the vagaries of bodies
The Sacred Self
Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma
The Office of Reason
An ethnographic study of the words and actions common to a shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill shows how distinct forms of reasoning and personal agency relate to a set of practical concerns and political exigencies. Whereas the shelter's staff rely on and promote a referential language and direct, active forms of agency, its residents depend on tactical, persuasive uses of language and oblique, reactive forms of agency. Yet b…
Some Causes and Cultures of Homelessness
Shelter Blues
Shelter Blues is an innovative portrait of people residing in Boston's Station Street Shelter. It examines the everyday lives of more than 40 homeless men and women of various ethnicities, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Based on a sixteen-month study, it draws readers into the personal worlds of these individuals and, by addressing the intimacies of homelessness, illness, and abjection, picks up where most scholarship and journalism st…
Violence and well-being
At Home in the World
At Home in the World
At Home in the World. Michael Jackson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. 188 pp
The Makings of Personhood in a Shelter for People Considered Homeless and Mentally III
This paper is about the pragmatic makings of identity and personhood in a Boston shelter for people considered homeless and mentally ill. Drawing upon the philosophical writings of Amelie Rorty, it examines the ways in which the words and actions of shelter residents and staff effected certain discourses of selfhood and personhood. In the course of their everyday engagements with staff and others, residents took the form of or were quietly depict…
Bodies and Persons
Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Michael Fambek and Andrew Strathern. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii. 298 pp., illustrations, contributors, bibliography, index
Echoes of a Yolmo Buddhist's Life, in Death
Culture and Consciousness in South Asia
So
This article inquires into the aesthetics and ethics of skilled talk and action among Nepal's Yolmo people, especially as they related to life history research I conducted in the late 1990s with Kisang Omu, an elderly Yolmo woman who resided then in Kathmandu, Nepal. In talking with Kisang about various aspects of her life, it became clear to me that she was greatly concerned about the quality of her talk, whether it was `good' or `not good'. Oth…
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