Order in paradox : myth, ritual, and exchange among Nepal's Tamang / David H. Holmberg
1989, First Edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Hinges starting. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #381940
ISBN: 0801422477
Physical description; xvi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index. Contents: Elementary Structures in ritual life -- Tamang comparatively reconstructed -- A culture of exchange and its paradoxes -- Panoramas of cosmic and temporal orders -- Sacrificial ordination -- Shamanic soundings -- An amonastic Buddhism -- Ritual polarities, mythic imagination, and history. Subjects: Tamang (Nepalese people). Tamang (Peuple du Népal). Tamang (Nepalese people) Etnografie. Tamang.
Mythos Religion Ritual Tamang. Tamang (peuple d'Asie) Nepal rites et cérémonies. Tamang (peuple du Népal) Religion. Tamang (peuple du Népal) Rites et cérémonies. rite Tamang (peuple) Népal. mythe Tamang (peuple) Népal. Tamang (peuple) Népal. Tamang (Nepalese people) Religious life and customs. Lamas Nepal. Tamang (Nepalese people)
Ethnography. Culture. Religion. Népal Moeurs et coutumes. Tamang.
Nepal Religious life and customs. Nepal. Tamang. Nepal Tamang Cultural processes.
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