Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister

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.

Author: Francesca Sbardella
Binding Type: Library Binding
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 10/01/2025
Series: European Anthropology in Translation #13
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781836951223