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Author : Tom O'Neill
Release : 2016-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 239/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Heart of Helambu by : Tom O'Neill
Download or read book The Heart of Helambu written by Tom O'Neill. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of Tom O'Neill's experiences undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal.
Author : Davide Torri
Release : 2020-03-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 159/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal by : Davide Torri
Download or read book Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal written by Davide Torri. This book was released on 2020-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas. Opening with an analysis of the ethnic revival of Nepal, the book first considers the Himalayan religious landscape and its people. Specific attention is then given to Helambu, home of the Hyolmo people, within the framework of Tibetan Buddhism. The discussion then turns to the persisting shamanic tradition of the region and the ritual dynamics of Hyolmo culture. The book concludes by considering broader questions of Hyolmo identity in the Nepalese context, as well as reflecting on the interconnection of landscape, ritual and identity. Offering a unique insight into a fascinating Himalayan culture and its formation, this book will be of great interest to scholars of indigenous peoples and religion across religious studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology and South Asian studies.
Author : Andreas Bandak
Release : 2022-06-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 95X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Exemplary Life by : Andreas Bandak
Download or read book Exemplary Life written by Andreas Bandak. This book was released on 2022-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Nazzour, who serves as an aspirational figure in her community. Myrna is regarded by her followers as an exemplary figure, a living saint, and the messages, apparitions, stigmata, and oil that have marked Myrna since 1982 have corroborated her status as chosen by God. Exemplary Life probes the power of examples, the modelling of sainthood around Myrna’s figure, and the broader context for Syrian Christians in the changing landscape of the Middle East. The book highlights the social use of examples such as the ones inhabited by Myrna’s devout followers and how they reveal the broader structures of illustration, evidence, and persuasion in social and cultural settings. Andreas Bandak argues that the role of the example should incite us to investigate which trains of thought set local worlds in motion. In doing so, Exemplary Life presents a novel frame for examining how religion comes to matter to people and adds a critical dimension to current anthropological engagements with ethics and morality.
Author : Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Release : 2021
Genre : Business and politics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 729/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shadow Play by : Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Download or read book Shadow Play written by Sheri Lynn Gibbings. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.
Author : Stuart Earle Strange
Release : 2021-07-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Suspect Others by : Stuart Earle Strange
Download or read book Suspect Others written by Stuart Earle Strange. This book was released on 2021-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self. Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.
