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Inhabiting Silence : An Anthropologist in the Cloister

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Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in research based on indirect sources. This volume is the result of observant participation in which the ethnographer is a protagonist social actor in two French monasteries of Discalced Carmelite nuns. The author experiences and narrates details of their everyday life that usually remain unseen but contribute to shaping community-building processes and, at the same time, construe the religious woman.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781836951223
  • ISBN-10: 1836951221
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publish Date: October 2025
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.17 pounds
  • Page Count: 254

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