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Encompassing a fractal world : the energetic female core in myth and everyday life--a few lessons drawn from the Nepalese Himalaya

Title: Encompassing a fractal world : the energetic female core in myth and everyday life--a few lessons drawn from the Nepalese Himalaya / Gil Daryn.
Author: Daryn, Gil, 1963-
Publication: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006], ©2006.

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xx, 297 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Encompassing a Fractal World presents a paradigm that opens up new perspectives for understanding and analyzing Hindu life and culture. This book is an interdisciplinary comparative work that attempts to connect the dots, moving beyond isolated local village-based studies in order to bridge the gulf between anthropology and Hindu studies."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index.

Contents

1. An overview -- Pt. I. Man : understanding mistrust -- 2. Himalayan uncertainties -- 3. Encompassing the ambivalent female core -- Pt. II. Cosmos : from image to cosmology -- 4. On Hindu divine sexuality and marriage -- 5. The Jagya - ethnography -- 6. The Jagya - an analysis -- Pt. III. Rice : from must to trust - an ontogeny of rice -- 7. An agricultural Jagya -- 8. The "world upside-down" or a Himalayan inversion of hierarchy and trust -- 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

0739111736 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006002538
9780739111734

OCLC

OCM63187471
SCSB-13988719

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Columbia University Libraries