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Pagan Christmas : winter feasts of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush / Augusto S. Cacopardo.
Van Pelt Library DS380.K34 C33613 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cacopardo, Augusto S., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Natale pagano. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Kalash (Pakistani people)--Religion.
- Kalash (Pakistani people).
- Kalash (Pakistani people)--Folklore.
- Fasts and feasts--Pakistan--Chitrāl District.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Folklore.
- Ethnology.
- Religion.
- Chitrāl District (Pakistan)--Religious life and customs.
- Chitrāl District (Pakistan).
- Ethnology--Pakistan--Chitrāl District.
- Folklore--Pakistan--Chitrāl District.
- Pakistan--Chitrāl District.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 314 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Ginko Library, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part I The Context
- 1 The Kalasha: Historical and Cultural Context 23
- Peristan 23
- The Islamizaiion of Chitral and the establishment of the Muslim kingdom 29
- The Kingdom of Chitral 34
- An encapsulated society: the Kalasha political organization 37
- A brief note on Chitral and the Afghan conflict 39
- 2 The Kalasha: the Traditional Model 41
- Kalasha tradition 41
- The system of production 42
- The Kalasha symbolic system and its social projections 45
- Kalasha polytheism 53
- 3 The Community of Birir Valley 63
- Polytheists and Muslims in Birir 63
- Kinship and society in Birir 66
- The annual ritual cycle in Birir 70
- Part II Winter Feasts in Birir
- 4 The Narrative: the Chaumos Festival 81
- Arrival in Birir: everyday life in the valley 81
- My assistants and the winter 'ritual logjam' 84
- Acharik and gandalikan - 10 December 91
- Desh sucein and bhut ungush'ek - 14 December 2006 96
- Ruzhias - 15 December 2006 97
- Goshtsaraz - 16 December 2006 100
- Kalasha song and dance 105
- Nongrat- 17 December 2006 116
- Istongas rat - 18 December 2006 123
- Kot shatek - 19 December 2006 139
- Aspar nat - 20 December 2006 154
- Dau pachein - 21 December 2006 160
- 5 The Narration: the Other Winter Feasts 163
- Lagaur - 5-7 January 2007 163
- Jhanì - 23-25 January 2007 177
- Salgherek and Benjistem - 31 January/1 February 2007 185
- Raistam 193
- 6 The Deep Meaning of the Kalasha Chaumos 195
- The Chaumos of Birir and Bumburet/Rumbur: structures in comparison 195
- The descent of Balimain into the Bumburet valley 200
- Structure and history in the Kalasha Chaumos 203
- The coincidence of opposites in Indian philosophy and in the Kalasha system 210
- Kalasha cosmology 212
- Part III Intercultural Connections
- Introduction 223
- 7 Peristan and the Indian World 225
- The pre-Islamic cultures of Nuristan and the Indian world 225
- The Kalasha religious system and the Vedic religion 227
- The fundamental opposition in the Kalasha symbolic system and in Hinduism 231
- Chaumos and Indian religious festivals 234
- The Hindus of the Himalayas 235
- 8 Peristan and Archaic Europe 240
- Affinities 240
- Winter feasts in European folklore 243
- Carnival and Christmas 244
- The personifications of Christmas and Carnival 246
- The Visitor god and the Dying god 250
- The deep meaning of the two figures 253
- Balimain and Dionysus 255
- The Silk Route and the Wine Route 258
- 9 Peristan and the Proto-Indo-Europeans 262
- The reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European culture 262
- Peristan and the Proto-Indo-Europeans 265
- Peristan and the tripartite ideology of George Dumézil 267
- The religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans 272
- Conclusions 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781909942844
- 1909942847
- OCLC:
- 965528429
- Publisher Number:
- 99971602847
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