Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stan Royal MumfordSeries:New Directions in Anthropological Writing (Paperback)Publish date:1989-12-15Pages:300
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299119843ISBN-10:029911984XUPC:9780299119843Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Sociology of ReligionBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.24 x 6.10 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC6E8PVA4N
Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal
In the mountain valleys of Nepal, Tibetan communities have long been established through migrations from the North. Because of these migrations over the last few centuries, Tibetan lamaism, as one of the world's great ritual traditions, can be studied in the Himalayas as a process that emerges through dialogue with the more ancient shamanic tradition which it confronts and criticizes.
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Series: New Directions in Anthropological Writing (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299119843ISBN-10:029911984XUPC:9780299119843Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Sociology of ReligionBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.24 x 6.10 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC6E8PVA4N
Stan Royal Mumford (1936-1993) was associate professor and chair of the department of anthropology and sociology at Albertson College of Idaho. His work has appeared in the American Anthropologist, Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, and other journals. Himalayan Dialogue is the result of three years of fieldwork in Nepal, supported by Princeton University and by grants from the National Science...
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