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Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal |
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Childs, Geoff (著)
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| Date | 2004.09.27 |
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| Pages | 228 |
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| Publisher | University of California Press |
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https://www.ucpress.edu/
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| Location | California, US [加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Geoff Childs is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University |
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| Abstract | In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders. Offering insights into the complex dynamics of the ethnically Tibetan enclave of Nubri, Childs provides a vivid and compelling portrait of the ebb and flow of life and death, of communal harmony and discord, and of personal conflicts and social resolutions. Part ethnography, part travelogue, and part biography, Tibetan Diary is a one-of-a-kind book that conveys the tangled intricacies of a Tibetan society.
Childs's immensely readable and informative narrative incorporates contemporary observations as well as vignettes culled from first-person testaments including oral histories and autobiographies. Examining the tensions between cultural ideals and individual aspirations, he explores certain junctures in the course of life: how the desire to attain religious knowledge or to secure a caretaker in old age contrasts with social expectations and familial obligation, for example. The result is a vivid and unparalleled view of the quest for both spiritual meaning and mundane survival that typifies life in an unpredictable Himalayan environment. |
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| Table of contents | Raising the curtain
The lay of the land
Life begets death, death begets life : the life course begins
Adolescent discord : family needs versus spiritual deeds
Growing through travel : the pilgrimage for knowledge and prestige
The merits of matrimony : commencing the householder life
High peaks and deep valleys : the imponderable nature of everyday life
Anticipating the end of the life course : the anxieties of old age
Parting breaths : death is but a transition
Transcending death : rising corpses and reincarnations. |
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| ISBN | 0520241339; 9780520241336 (Paperback) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal by Geoff Childs / Wangdi, Yosay (評論)
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| Created date | 2023.08.08 |
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| Modified date | 2023.08.08 |
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