Sherpas through their Rituals by Sherry B Ortner
The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology, social structure and experience. Professor Ortner analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community.At the University of California, Los Angeles, Sherry B.Ortner is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58, which was also published by Duke University Press, and Life and Death on Mt. High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism, Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering, Creating Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture, and Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering She has won various honors, including the John D. Catherine T. and Catherine T.
The J.D. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship are two of the most prestigious awards I.Staley Award
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521292160 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521292166 |
| Title | Sherpas through their Rituals |
| Author | Sherry B Ortner |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Cultural Systems |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1978-04-14 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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