Title:Sherpas Through Their Rituals
ISBN:0521215366
Author:Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher:Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.
Publish Year:1978
Edition:First Edition
Cover:Hard Back With Dust Jacket
Subject:Anthropology/ Sociology | Nepal | Nepal Anthropology | Nepal Culture and Custom
Language:English
Remarks:B&W Photographs and Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography and Index. As New. Clearsleep dust jacket slightly rubbed. Owner inscription on front free endpaper. Apart from this there is no any tear, damages or worn outs. The book in just like new.
Pages:195
Size:160 x 234 mm
Weight(gms):500
Price:USD 200.00
The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology, social structure and experience. Professor Ortner analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community.
Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
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