Order in Paradox: Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang - Tapa blanda

Holmberg, David H.

 
9780801480553: Order in Paradox: Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang
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ISBN 10: 0801480558 ISBN 13: 9780801480553
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2000

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801480558
ISBN 13 
9780801480553
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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