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20 juillet 2022
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Samuele Poletti, « In the Shadows of Death: An existential approach to mortality in the Sinja valley of western Nepal », European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, ID : 10.4000/ebhr.349
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Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis explores how people in the Sinja Valley of Jumla District (western Nepal) endeavour to make sense of existence through their engagement with mortality. My epistemological approach and the argument I put forwards is framed as a phenomenology of life in the shadows of death. This implies the exploration of how the phenomenon of death ‘appears’ to the consciousness of Sinjali people, contributing to the formation and sometimes dissolution...