Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia
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Ailao Mountains
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Central Nepal
CHARLES MALAMOUD
Common Language
Confer
Cow's Body
Creation Of The World
environmental anthropology
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ethnographic studies Himalayan peoples
Feeding Meat
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Himalayan ethnography
Himalyan Region
Hinduism
Holy Men
human animal relations
indigenous cosmologies
Indigenous Peoples
Indigineous People in the Himalayan Region
Indus Kohistan
Indus Kohistani
Islam
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Local Knowledge
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Myth in Religion
Phusis
Reborn
religious syncretism
Religious Traditions
ritual practices Asia
Sacred Receptacle
Siberian Peoples
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Spirits in the Human World
Superposed
Timeless
Vice Versa
Village Representatives
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138102705
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores how ethnic groups living in the Himalayan regions understand nature and culture. The first part addresses the opposition between nature and culture in Asia’s major religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Shamanism. The second part brings together specialists of different representative groups living in the heterogeneous Himalayan region. They examine how these indigenous groups perceive their world. This includes understanding their mythic past, in particular, the place of animals and spirits in the world of humans as they see it and the role of ritual in the everyday lives of these people. The book takes into account how these various perceptions of the Himalayan peoples are shaped by a globalized world. The volume thus provides new ways of viewing the relationship between humans and their environment.
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is Senior Researcher in Social Anthropology at CNRS, France, and teaches at the Institut National des Langues Orientales, Paris. She has recently published Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal (Collected Essays), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009
