It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read Subject to Death by Robert Desjarlais
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If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death’s enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists, an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people from Nepal. He studies the death preparations of the Hyolmo, their specific rituals of grieving, and the practices they use to heal the psychological trauma of loss. Desjarlais’s research marks a major advance in the ethnographic study of death, dying, and grief, one with broad implications. Ethnologically...
Subject to Death by Robert Desjarlais is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read Subject to Death aloud.
Subject to Death is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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