Order in Paradox : : Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang /

Order in Paradox : : Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang / / David Holmberg.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Holmberg, David,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1992
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps, Figures, Table
  • Preface
  • Note on Transcription and Pronunciation
  • 1. Introduction: Elementary Structures Ritual Life
  • 2. Tamang Comparatively Reconstructed
  • 3. A Culture of Exchange and Its Paradoxes
  • 4. Panoramas of Cosmic and Temporal Orders
  • 5. Sacrificial Ordination
  • 6. Shamanic Soundings
  • 7. An Amonastic Buddhism
  • 8. Ritual Polarities, Mythic Imagination, and History
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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