David H. Holmberg here examines the social forms, ritual practices, and history of a western Tamang community of Himalayan Nepal. Exploring the central question of ritual complexity, Order in Paradox demonstrates how a religious system that contains Buddhist, shamanic, and sacrificial practices may be understood as a whole.
Holmberg begins by recounting the history of the Tamang and reexamining the meaning of caste, tribe, and ethnicity in greater Nepal. Holmberg reveals how cultural patterns thought to be uniquely Tamang reflect this people's development of an "involuted" "tribal" form of Buddhist religious expression―an evolution he interprets as a result in part of the unification of the Nepalese state. Holmberg then offers descriptions of the culture, mythic imagination, and ritual field of the Tamang. Exploring both structural and historical dimensions of Tamang rituals, Holmberg shows how they form a system linked to a cultural logic of exchange upon which Tamang society is built. He also sheds light on the relationship between gender and ritual, considering in detail the close association between femaleness and the shamanic in Tamang culture.
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David H. Holmberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Hinges starting. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index. Contents: Elementary Structures in ritual life -- Tamang comparatively reconstructed -- A culture of exchange and its paradoxes -- Panoramas of cosmic and temporal orders -- Sacrificial ordination -- Shamanic soundings -- An amonastic Buddhism -- Ritual polarities, mythic imagination, and history. Subjects: Tamang (Nepalese people). Tamang (Peuple du Népal). Tamang (Nepalese people) Etnografie. Tamang.Mythos Religion Ritual Tamang. Tamang (peuple d'Asie) Nepal rites et cérémonies. Tamang (peuple du Népal) Religion. Tamang (peuple du Népal) Rites et cérémonies. rite Tamang (peuple) Népal. mythe Tamang (peuple) Népal. Tamang (peuple) Népal. Tamang (Nepalese people) Religious life and customs. Lamas Nepal. Tamang (Nepalese people)Ethnography. Culture. Religion. Népal Moeurs et coutumes. Tamang.Nepal Religious life and customs. Nepal. Tamang. Nepal Tamang Cultural processes 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 381940
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