Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang
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Binding : Paperback
Pages : 298
Edition : 1st
Size : 5.5" x 8.5"
Condition : New
Language : English
Weight : 0.0-0.5 kg
Publication Year: 1996
Country of Origin : India
Territorial Rights : Worldwide
Reading Age : 13 years and up
HSN Code : 49011010 (Printed Books)
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
This lively account of ritual, religion, and exchange in the Tamang society of Nepal is sophisticated and well written. Holmberg draws on his informative descriptions of Tamang Buddhism for comparativist insights into marriage exchange caste, sacrifice, and the coherence of religious fields..... The study illuminates the diversity of types of sacrifice the study illuminates the diversity of types of sacrifice the interplay of spoken and written ritual languages and the paradox of exchange that differentiates while promising to unify
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