European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
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Total Pages | : 424 |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
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Author | : Franck Bernède |
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Total Pages | : 275 |
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Genre | : Folk music |
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Author | : Martin Gaenszle |
Publisher | : Lit Verlag |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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This study focuses on various genres of ritual speech among the Mewahang Rai, all of which make use of a distinct ritual language. The main objective is to situate the oral ritual texts in their ethnographic context. Combining a textual with a cultural approach, the author discusses the indigenous concept of tradition, the rhetorical and poetic features of ritual speech genres, and the discursive universe constructed through the texts. On the theoretical level, the book contributes to recent debates about ritualization and performance, and to discussions in linguistic anthropology concerning the notions of formality, indexicality, entextualization and contextualization. Martin Gaenszle is affiliated with the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, and teaches in the Department of Ethnology.
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Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains Region |
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Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains Region |
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Author | : Ehud Halperin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190913584 |
"This book offers a portrait of Haḍimbā, a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of God. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book portrays the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology"--
Author | : Baburam Acharya |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9351182045 |
To the palace by the sword Nepal, the land of Buddhism and misty mountains, is not a nation whose history one would expect to be filled with blood. And yet, the struggle to gain and keep the control over the mountain kingdom is one marked by a long history of violence and murder. The Bloodstained Throne is a translation of Aba Yasto Kahilyai Nahos, a compilation of historical essays that recount some of the bloody battles for power in a tumultuous period—a phase that spanned more than one hundred years. This tale of the machinations, massacre and bloodletting that rocked Nepal’s power centre—the royal palace—will give you a rare and fascinating glimpse into one of the least-known and most violent power struggles that South Asia has ever seen.
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Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains Region |
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Author | : David Gellner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2007-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 184545216X |
There has been growing concern about "failed states", and since the massacre of the Royal family in Nepal in 2001, increasing media attention has focused on the decline of the state and the rise of the Maoist rebels. This book explores the complex relationship between a modernizing, developmentalist state and the people it professes to represent.
Author | : Ina Zharkevich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
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Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108600387 |
By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996–2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerilla enclave. By focusing on people's everyday lives, the book illuminates how the everyday became a primary site of revolution of crafting new subjectivities, introducing 'new' social practices and displacing the 'old' ones, and reconfiguring the ways that people act in and think about the world through the process of 'embodied change'.