Order in Paradox: Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Holmberg, David
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	07/14/1992
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

David H. Holmberg here examines the social forms, ritual practices, and history of a western Tamang community of Himalayan Nepal. Exploring the central question of ritual complexity, Order in Paradox demonstrates how a religious system that contains Buddhist, shamanic, and sacrificial practices may be understood as a whole.Holmberg begins by...