FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

  REVIEW By Satis Shroff: BODY AND EMOTION The book 'Body and Emotion' by Robert R. Desjarlais costs Rs.225 in India, has 300 pages,publishers Motilal Banarsidass (c) 1992 University of Pennsylvania. It is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional forces that interact, influence, reveal and heal severe illnesses. The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas among the Yolmo Sherpas. The cultural account is finely written and shows not only the limits of the shamans but also those of the anthropologist--who has entered a world of good and malevolent spirits and learns how to go about with them. Much like Larry Peters, who lost his son because he didn't want to have his sick son treated by the local jhakri under whom he worked on his thesis as an assistant shaman, Rober R. Desjarlais gives insight into the workings of the Yolmo Sherpa minds, as well as his own, during which he cites from sources based in Western librarie...

Only Sagarmatha Knows (Satis Shroff), a poem by Satis Shroff, Germany

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : Interview with Satis Shroff : Interview with Satis Shroff When did you first start writing? I really started writing when I went to Kathmandu to do my BSc in...

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : Germany: Saying Goodbye to Winter (Satis Shroff) : ADIEU WINTER (Satis Shroff) It was 8 am on a snowy Monday morning. There were hundreds of motley clad and colored spectators stomping ...

ADIEU WINTER (Satis Shroff) It was 8 am on a snowy Monday morning. There were hundreds of motley clad and colored spectators stomping their cold feet, all waiting for the boisterous merrymaking (Narrensprung) at the Old Town of Endingen (Kaiserstuhl), with 3500 costumed Narren from five countries. Among the Swabian-Allemanic figures were also masked guests from Belgium, Switzerland, Venezuela and Italy (the Ballerini of Bogolino from Lombardy). On this cold, wintry morning the ghoulish, tragic-comical figures of Swabian-Allemanic origin were underway to drive away the chilly, unfriendly, bitter winter with much noise and ado. And there were 1,468 of them. There they came all 3500 of them. Rows of toddlers and grown-ups, men and women in yellow and scarlet dresses with big cow-bells hanging from their shoulder-straps, and red roses and black-painted beards. Each had a small basket filled with bon-bons, sweets and chocolates which they strew to the public who greeted them with: N...

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : FREIBURGER FASNET IMPRESSIONS (Satis Shroff) : European Ethnology: FASNET IN FREIBURG-KAPPEL  Narri! Narro!  The fasnet is upon us and the scary and hideous Schauinsland Berggeister, s...

European Ethnology: FASNET IN FREIBURG-KAPPEL  Narri! Narro!  The fasnet is upon us and the scary and hideous Schauinsland Berggeister, spirits from the mountains, have stormed the local kindergarten and school.  The spirits are motley attired, and spring and prance about, wearing their masks and costumes and make the children happy because they also distribute goodies in the form of bon-bons, sweets, chocolates, popcorn in small plastic bags. The children just love it, sing and dance with the Berggeister on this day. No classworks, no homeworks. Just fun and cheerfulness is the order of the day.  The next target of the Berggeister is the Kappeler town council when the mayor is obliged to hand over the key of the council to the Berggeister as a sign of courteousness and surrender to the Berggeister who then take over the show, throw confetti from the windows and at the otherwise stiff civil servants. Civilized and controlled anarchy spreads everywhere for even...