Berkeley: U of California P 2003351...

Berkeley: U of California P 2003351 pp + Notes. ISBN 0-520-23588-6 $2195

Written with a sharply focused clarity that is independent of academic jargon, Sensory Biographies compellingly explores the life histories of sum of two units elderly Yolmo, members of a Buddhist ethnicity whose ancestors migrated from Tibet into Central Nepal three centuries ago. The work juxtaposes these couple lives, each serving as a mirror not and nothing else to the other if it be not that also to Yolmo society. single in kind is a hereditary lama, "Mheme" ("Grandfather") Lama, a widower, twice married, who was eighty-five years