Davide Torri

Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780367646066
• ISBN-10: 0367646064
• Artikelnr.: 69894236

Autorenporträt

Davide Torri is currently a researcher at the Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts (official English translation of the SARAS [Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo]), at Sapienza University of Rome. In addition, he is associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Germany) and of the Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes of the CNRS (France). He co-edited Shamanism and Violence: Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (2013) and is the author of Il Lama e il Bombo: Sciamanismo e buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Graham Harvey
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Ethnicity and the state. Historical introduction to Nepal's ethnic revival movements
3 Notes towards a theory of landscape: from the animist landscape to the Buddhist beyul
4 Secret and sacred. Yolmo as a beyul
5 Shamans in Helambu
6 Ritual dynamics
7 Identity Matters
8 Conclusions
Appendix 1 List of Indigenous Nationalities
Glossary
Bibliography