Torri Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal

The Buddha and the Drum
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-10815-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: Vitality of Indigenous Religions

Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation among the Hyolmo of Nepal, their religious life in the villages and in the urban context, this book addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface and their dynamics of change, mutual appropriations and negotiations over time. An important contribution to the anthropology of Nepal and to the anthropology of religion and ethnic identity, the book's analyses of the various dimensions of social, political, and religious life of the Hyolmo people offer a unique insight into a fascinating Himalayan culture and its formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Torri, Davide

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Davide Torri is a researcher at the Asia-Europe Cluster of Excellence, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He studied Hindi language and Hinduism at the University of Venice. After his dissertation on the Lepchas of Sikkim, he dedicated himself to the anthropology of religion and to the study of shamanism among indigenous communities of India, Nepal, and Mongolia. In particular, he specialised in the study of Himalayan indigenous and minority groups. He wrote several papers on shamanism and forms of syncretism between South Asian indigenous cultures, Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Having done fieldwork in Nepal during the Civil War and the following peace process, he developed an interest in conflicts dynamics, politics and patterns of change affecting small-scale societies. For the Vitality of Indigenous Religions series, he co-edited (with Diana Riboli, Panteio University, Greece) the volume Shamanism and Violence. Power, repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (Ashgate, 2013). He also published (2014), Il Lama e il Bombo. Sciamanismo e buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, Roma, 2014) in a series sponsored by the University of Rome La Sapienza, titled, Sapienza Sciamanica, plus various journal articles and book chapters in edit volumes.