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Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal |
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| Author |
Levy, Robert I. (著)
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Rajopadhyaya, Kedar Raj (著)
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| Edition | First Edition |
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| Date | 1991.05.02 |
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| Pages | 800 |
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| Publisher | University of California Press |
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https://www.ucpress.edu/
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| Location | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Robert I. Levy is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of the highly regarded seminal study, Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands. |
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| Abstract | Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of citywhat the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu Valley, a city which is perhaps the last surviving example of a type of organization once widespread in the ancient world.
Robert Levy views Bhaktapur as a structured "mesocosm," mediating between the microcosm of individual self-conception and the macrocosm of the culturally conceived larger universe. The city is a bounded entity, grounded on a minutely divided and interrelated sacrilized space. It uses that space, roles assigned by an elaborate caste system, a semantically differentiated pantheon, and the tempos and forms of the festival year and rites of passage to construct a "civic dance," a web of communication and instruction which deeply affects the experience of Bhaktapur's citizens. Levy investigates the meaning of the community to the people who live there and suggests how the religious forms that have challenged Hinduism in South AsiaChristianity and, above all, Islamare profoundly antithetical to Hinduism as the organizing principle for cities such as Bhaktapur. Mesocosm is a groundbreaking contribution to anthropology, social and religious history, and Indian and Nepalese studies. |
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| ISBN | 0520069110 (Hardcover); 9780520069114 (Hardcover) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal by James F. Fisher; Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang by David H. Holmberg; The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border by Nancy E. Levine; Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal by Robert I. Levy; Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal by Stan Royal Mumford; High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism by Sherry B. Ortner / McHugh, Ernestine L. (評論)
- Dialogue, Structure, and Change in Himalayan Anthropology. A Review Article / McHugh, Ernestine L. (著)
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| Created date | 2023.10.25 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.25 |
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