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 the
upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal.
It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals
perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing
to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference
between the two was remarkable, however, in that Ghang Lama's life
had been dominated by motifs of vision, whereas Kisang Omu's
accounts of her life largely involved a "theatre of voices."
Desjarlais offers a fresh and readable inquiry into how people's
ways of sensing the world contribute to how they live and how they
recollect their lives.
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