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Encounters with the Invisible: Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas - Hardcover

 
9781032385617: Encounters with the Invisible: Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032385618 ISBN 13: 9781032385617
Verlag: Routledge India, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining material representations of these powers through artefacts, animals, plants and natural substances.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is research director at the National Centre for Specific Reseach (CNRS), and member of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, CNRS/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sociales (EHESS)/Collège de France, Paris, France. She has coordinated several collective programs of research in Nepal and the Western Himalayas, and she is now heading a programme on the "Stones Fallen from the Sky", included in the Programmes et équipements prioritaires de recherche (PEPR) Origins. Her books include, Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal, 2009; (ed.) Bards and Mediums: History, Culture and Politics in the Central Himalayan Kingdoms, Almora, 2009; (ed.) Revolution in Nepal, 2013; (ed.) Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia, 2017; and Sacrifice and Violence, forthcoming.

Anne de Sales is senior researcher emerita at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative/CNRS/Paris Nanterre Université. She has participated in or coordinated several collective research projects in the anthropology of Nepal and the Himalayas. Her publications include a monograph on an ethnic minority, the Kham-Magar, and numerous articles on shamanic practices and oral literature. Her publications have also addressed a range of anthropological issues concerning the impact of the Maoist insurrection on rural areas.

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Verlag
Routledge India
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1032385618
ISBN 13 
9781032385617
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
308
Herausgeber
Lecomte-Tilouine Marie, De Sales Anne
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