Robert Desjarlais

'The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar'

Bog | Engelsk

On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris police responded with deadly violence, by some accounts k

'Subject to Death'

Bog | Engelsk

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of deaths enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death , Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists, an et