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Introduction: Some Notes On Ritual -- The Surface Contours Of The Sherpa World -- Economy -- Social Organization -- Religion -- Nyungne: Problems Of Marriage, Family, And Asceticism -- The Ritual -- The Problems Of The Ritual -- Merit Making And Social Atomism -- Gods, Parents, And Social Sentiments -- Ascetic Ideology And The Crisis Of The Children's Marriages -- The Solutions Of The Ritual -- The Fostering Of Altruism -- Nyungne As Passage To Postparenthood -- Ascetic Ideology And Family Structure -- Hospitality: Problems Of Exchange, Status, And Authority -- The Party -- The Problems Of Hospitality -- The Problem Of Giving And Receiving -- The Power Of Food -- Problems Of Status, Power, And Authority -- The Solutions Of Hospitality -- The Empty Mouth Principle And The Etiquette Of Giving And Receiving -- Seating And Joking: The Party As Politics -- Civilized Coercion And The Reproduction Of Hosts -- Exorcisms: Problems Of Wealth, Pollution, And Reincarnation -- The Rituals -- The Do Dzongup -- The Gyepshi -- The Problems Of The Rituals -- Demons, Greed, And Social Predation -- Pollution, Disintegration Of Self, And Subversion Of The Social Order -- Reincarnation Theory And The S

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Author

Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521292160

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Fiction

Rating

3.6 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14