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Domestic mandala : architecture of lifeworlds in Nepal

Title: Domestic mandala : architecture of lifeworlds in Nepal / by John Gray.
Author: Gray, John N., 1945-
Publication: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

xvi, 163 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

Uniform Title

Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

Subjects

Chhetris > Dwellings > Nepal > Kholagaun
Hinduism > Nepal > Kholagaun > Rituals
Mandala > Nepal > Kholagaun
Chhetris > Nepal > Kholagaun > Social life and customs
Hindu cosmology
Architecture and cosmology

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.

Contents

Introduction : domestic space, activities, and experience of the cosmos -- The sacred house : domestic space as mandala -- The auspicious house : materials, design, and orientation -- The constructed house : ritual construction of domestic space -- The revelatory house : dwelling in the domestic mandala -- The matrimonial house : ritual appropriation of domestic space -- Conclusion : Architechnē.

ISBN

075464538X

LCCN

2006002767

OCLC

OCM63679927
SCSB-5278699

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries