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Description: Order in Paradox : Myth, Ritual, and Exchange Amoung Nepal's Tamang, Hardcover by Holmberg, David H., ISBN 0801422477, ISBN-13 9780801422478, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

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 peoples 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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Book Title: Order in Paradox : Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 1989

Topic: Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / India & South Asia, Customs & Traditions

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Religion, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 32 Oz

Author: David Holmberg

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover

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