Mesocosm :Hinduism and the organization of a traditional Newar city in Nepal

• 作者: Levy, Robert I.
• 其他作者: Rājopādhyāya, Kedar Rāj.
• 出版: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1990.
• 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxii, 829 pages, [8] pages of of plates) :illustrations (some color).
• 標題: Sociology, Urban , Sociology, Urban. , Nepal , Bhaktapur (Nepal) Religious life and customs. , Hinduism Nepal -- Bhaktapur. , Hinduism , Nepal Bhaktapur. , Newar (Nepalese people) , Philosophy & Religion. , Religious life and customs. , Religion. , SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology -- Cultural. , Sociology, Urban Nepal -- Bhaktapur. , AnthropologyCultural. , Hindu sociology. , POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. , Public PolicyCultural Policy. , Popular Culture. , Hinduism. , POLITICAL SCIENCE , Electronic books. , SOCIAL SCIENCE , Bhaktapur (Nepal) , SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture.
• ISBN: 0520069110 , 9780520069114
• ISBN: 0520069110
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• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-787) and index. Introduction -- Orientation and contexts -- Orientations -- Nepal, the Kathmandu Valley, and some history -- Bhaktapur's other order -- The distribution of roles: The macrostatus system -- Inside the Thars -- The construction of the mecocosm -- The symbolic organization of space -- Bhaktapur's pantheon -- Tantrism and the worship of the dangerous deities -- Priests -- Purity and impurity: On the borders of the sacred -- The dance of symbols -- The civic ballet: Annual time and the festival cycles -- The events of the lunar year -- The events of the solar cycle -- The Devi cycle -- The patterns and meanings of the festival year -- What is Bhaktapur that a Newar may know it? -- Appendix one: Transliterations used in the text -- Appendix two: Bhaktapur's Newar Hindu Thars ranked by macrosocial status -- Appendix three: Kinship terminology -- Appendix four: Types of worship and materials used in worship -- Appendix five: A catalogue of annual events and their distribution throughout the lunar year -- Appendix six: Rites of passage and death ceremonies.
• 摘要: Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu Valley, a city which is perhaps the last surviving example of a type of organization once widespread in the ancient world. Robert Levy views Bhaktapur as a structured "mesocosm," mediating between the microcosm of individual self-conception and the macrocosm of the culturally conceived larger universe. The city is a bounded entity, grounded on a minutely divided and interrelated sacrilized space. It uses that space, roles assigned by an elaborate caste system, a semantically differentiated pantheon, and the tempos and forms of the festival year and rites of passage to construct a "civic dance," a web of communication and instruction which deeply affects the experience of Bhaktapur's citizens. Levy investigates the meaning of the community to the people who live there and suggests how the religious forms that have challenged Hinduism in South Asia - Christianity and, above all, Islam - are profoundly antithetical to Hinduism as the organizing principle for cities such as Bhaktapur. Mesocosm is a groundbreaking contribution to anthropology, social and religious history, and Indian and Nepalese studies--Publisher's description.
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