Khwopa Newar
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Khwopa Newar
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Author : Dan Raj Regmi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Khwopa Newar written by Dan Raj Regmi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Bhaktapur (Nepal) categories.
Growing Up
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Author : Niels Gutschow
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2008
Growing Up written by Niels Gutschow and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bhaktapur (Nepal) categories.
The authors - an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) - are presenting the second part of a trilogy of studies of life-cycle rituals in Nepal, carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Ritual". The initiation of boys and girls of both Hindus and Buddhists of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley are documented. The first part of the book presents elements of Newar rituals, the spatial background of Bhaktapur and the hierarchy of ritual specialists - illustrated by 21 maps. The second part documents with detailed descriptions the . rst feeding of solid food, birthday rituals, and pre-puberty rituals like the first shaving of the hair, the boy's initiation with the loincloth (in Buddhist and Hindu contexts), the girl's marriage with the bel fruit and the girl's seclusion. One girl's marriage (Ihi) and three boy's initiations (Kaytapuja) are documented on a DVD. The third part presents the textual tradition: local handbooks and manuals used by the Brahmin priest to guide the rituals. Two of these texts are edited and translated to demonstrate the function of such texts in a variety of contexts.
Mesocosm
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Author : Robert Isaac Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Mesocosm written by Robert Isaac Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
"A first-rate anthropological study of Hinduism. . . . The scholarship is clearly of superior quality. There is no study with the [same] kind of comprehensive breadth and treatment.Robert Levy and Kedar Rajopadhyaya show us how to do anthropology at this time in our history."--Triloki N. Pandey, University of California, Santa Cruz "I have no doubt that Mesocosm will become a classic in South Asian anthropology and Indology--leaving aside its implications for our understanding of other traditional cities in ancient European and Middle Eastern as well as more recent Oriental civilizations. . . . A very welcome and clear ordering of the very detailed and complex material."--Michael Witzel, Harvard University
Handling Death
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Author : Niels Gutschow
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2005
Handling Death written by Niels Gutschow and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Ancestor worship categories.
In a rare combination of competence, an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) have documented death rituals of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The first part of the book focusses to a specific setting, the ancient city of Bhaktapur and its calendric rituals of death and renewal. An introduction to the urban fabric with its cremation places, routes of death processions, places of spirits and ancestor deities is followed by a presentation of specialists involved in the death and ancestor rituals - illustrated by 28 maps. The second part presents a detailed description of the union of the deceased with his forefathers, a ritual which is also documented on a DVD. In addition, local handbooks and manuals used by the Brahmin priest during this ritual are edited and translated. This ethno-indological method of combination of textual and contextual approaches aims at understanding both the agency in rituals and the function of the text in contexts. Formalized rituals turn out to be by no means strict, stereotypical and unchangeable. The uniqueness of the actors, places and time has prompted the authors to name places and actors and to date time. The study of death rituals represents the first part of a trilogy of studies of life-cycle rituals in Nepal, carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Ritual" (Sonderforschungsbereich 619: Ritualdynamik).
Mesocosm
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Author : Robert Isaac Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Mesocosm written by Robert Isaac Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with categories.
Egophoricity
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Author : Simeon Floyd
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-04-15
Egophoricity written by Simeon Floyd and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation.
Discovering Bhaktapur
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Author : Aidan Warlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Discovering Bhaktapur written by Aidan Warlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Bhaktapur (Nepal) categories.
Getting Married
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Author : Niels Gutschow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Getting Married written by Niels Gutschow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Bhaktapur (Nepal) categories.
Accompanying DVD contians: film of marriage customs, rites and wedding.
Retheorizing Religion In Nepal
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Author : G. Grieve
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-10-16
Retheorizing Religion In Nepal written by G. Grieve and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-16 with Social Science categories.
Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline.
D Ph Sacred Singing In A South Asian City
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Author : Richard Widdess
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
D Ph Sacred Singing In A South Asian City written by Richard Widdess and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Music categories.
Dāphā, or dāphā bhajan, is a genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional singing, performed by male, non-professional musicians of the farmer and other castes belonging to the Newar ethnic group, in the towns and villages of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The songs, their texts, and their characteristic responsorial performance-style represent an extension of pan-South Asian traditions of rāga- and tāla-based devotional song, but at the same time embody distinctive characteristics of Newar culture. This culture is of unique importance as an urban South Asian society in which many traditional models survive into the modern age. There are few book-length studies of non-classical vocal music in South Asia, and none of dāphā. Richard Widdess describes the music and musical practices of dāphā, accounts for their historical origins and later transformations, investigates links with other South Asian traditions, and describes a cultural world in which music is an integral part of everyday social and religious life. The book focusses particularly on the musical system and structures of dāphā, but aims to integrate their analysis with that of the cultural and historical context of the music, in order to address the question of what music means in a traditional South Asian society.