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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 ville. En visitant les lieux des attentats, il rencontre les traces de la violence et il étudie les mémoriaux collectifs avec les mots et les images sur les murs des bâtiments. Il propose ce livre qui est une réflexion originale sur la violence dans le monde contemporain, ainsi que sur la politique de la mémoire et de l’oubli.
Anthropology --- mémoire --- violence --- terrorisme --- Paris --- oubli --- attentat
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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, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.
Ethnology. --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Medical anthropology. --- Ethnography. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Medical Anthropology. --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Arts and anthropology --- Arts --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropological aspects
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Homelessness --- Homeless persons --- Psychological aspects --- Mental health --- Services for --- United States --- Social conditions.
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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.
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Death --- Buddhists --- Lamas --- Yohlmu Tam (Nepalese people) --- Yolmo (Nepalese people) --- Yolmo Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Ethnology --- Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Lamaists --- Religious adherents --- Buddhist priests --- Religion. --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Kisang Omu. --- Ghang Lama. --- Omu, Kisang --- Lama, Chang --- Nepal --- Religious life and customs. --- Lamas (Bouddhisme) --- Bouddhistes --- Mort --- Yolmo (Peuple du Népal) --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Aspect religieux --- Bouddhisme --- Religion --- Népal --- Vie religieuse --- biographical profiles. --- biographical. --- buddhist priests. --- death and dying. --- death experience. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic studies. --- gerontology. --- human struggles. --- interviews. --- life and death. --- life histories. --- life journey. --- life stories. --- nepal. --- nonfiction biography. --- physical senses. --- religious figures. --- sensory experiences. --- sociology. --- spiritual. --- subjective experience. --- tibetan buddhists. --- touching. --- vision. --- yolmo buddhists. --- yolmo elders. --- yolmo valley. --- Ethnography.
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Shamanism --- Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Chamanisme --- Sherpa (Peuple népalais) --- Religion. --- Religion --- Nepal --- Népal --- Religion. --- Religion
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Death --- Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism --- Social aspects --- Religion
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Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people. While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us. What must life be like for those who, in addition to living on the street, hear voices, suffer paranoid delusions, or have trouble thinking clearly or talking to others. 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, both white and African-American, 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 stops. Robert Desjarlais works against the grain of media representations of homelessness by showing us not anonymous stereotypes but individuals. He draws on conversations as well as observations, talking with and listening to shelter residents to understand how they relate to their environment, to one another, and to those entrusted with their care. His book considers their lives in terms of a complex range of forces and helps us comprehend the linkages between culture, illness, personhood, and political agency on the margins of contemporary American society. Shelter Blues is unlike anything else ever written about homelessness. It challenges social scientists and mental health professionals to rethink their approaches to human subjectivity and helps us all to better understand one of the most pressing problems of our time.
Homeless persons --- Homelessness --- Mental health --- Services for --- Psychological aspects. --- United States --- Social conditions.
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"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess's intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.
Chess --- Chess players --- Anthropology --- Philosophy. --- Psychology. --- 21st century chess. --- anecdotes. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology of games. --- anthropology. --- biographical sketches. --- chess aficionados. --- chess culture. --- chess historians. --- chess lovers. --- chess players. --- chess strategies. --- chess. --- competition. --- cultural context. --- discussion books. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- game historians. --- games. --- intersubjectivity. --- mental exercise. --- mind games. --- nonfiction. --- popular games. --- psychology. --- strategy games. --- themes of play.
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