Sacrifice and Violence : Reflections from an Ethnography in Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Nepal.

Ethnology.

Sacrifice--Nepal.

Sacrifice.

Violence--Nepal.

Violence.

Nepal--Social conditions.

Nepal.

Nepal--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Violence is at the heart of the sacrifice, despite its denial in the texts. For the participants and observers, it materialises in the exposure of everyone and everything to the 'fountains of blood'. The specificity of this public and holistic violence, orchestrated in Nepal by the highest dignitaries and aimed at the rejuvenation of the cosmic, political and social order, allows us to see sacrifice as the ultimate model of legitimate violence. At the same time, observation reveals its oxymoronic nature through the opposite effect its violence has on its participants. As such, sacrifice is not only the organiser of society, but also the revelator of its internal tensions and fault lines. The book explores the complex aspects of royal ceremonies, their contestation by different groups, and finally the contours of the new legitimacy that sacrifice found during the revolutionary period under its most extreme form of human sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

A violence that is not violence

Theories of sacrifice, with or without violence

Sacrificial violence in narrative forms

Sacrificial practices and partitions

The buffalo sacrifice

Contestations of sacrifice: boycott and litigation

Self-sacrifice versus sacrifice in the revolutionary struggle

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Nov 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009537506

1009537504

9781009537476

1009537474

OCLC:

1428422162