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Order in Paradox: Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang |
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Holmberg, David H. (著)
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| Date | 1989 |
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| Pages | 288 |
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| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
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https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/
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| Location | Ithaca, NY, US [伊薩卡, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | 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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| Table of contents | Front Matter i-vi
Table of Contents vii-viii
Maps, Figures, Table ix-ix
[Map] x-x
Preface xi-xiv
Note on Transcription and Pronunciation xv-xviii
1 Introduction: Elementary Structures Ritual Life 1
2 Tamang Comparatively Reconstructed 11
3 A Culture of Exchange and Its Paradoxes 51
4 Panoramas of Cosmic and Temporal Orders 83
5 Sacrificial Ordination 116
6 Shamanic Soundings 142
7 An Amonastic Buddhism 175
8 Ritual Polarities, Mythic Imagination, and History 213
Glossary 237
Bibliography 243
Index 259
Back Matter 267 |
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| ISBN | 0801422477 (hbc); 9780801422478 (hbc) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang by David H. Holmberg / Parish, Steven M. (評論)
- Dialogue, Structure, and Change in Himalayan Anthropology. A Review Article / McHugh, Ernestine L. (著)
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| Created date | 2023.10.04 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.06 |
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