{"product_id":"himalayan-dialogue-tibetan-lamas-and-gurung-shamans-in-nepal-paperback","title":"Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStan Royal Mumford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mountain valleys of Nepal, Tibetan communities have long been established through migrations from the North. Because of these migrations over the last few centuries, Tibetan lamaism, as one of the world's great ritual traditions, can be studied in the Himalayas as a process that emerges through dialogue with the more ancient shamanic tradition which it confronts and criticizes.\u003cbr\u003e Here for the first time is a thorough anthropological study of Tibetan lamaism combining textual analysis with richly contextualized ethnographic data. The rites studied are of the Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist tradition. In contrast to the textual analyses that have viewed the culture as a finished entity, here we see an unbounded ritual process with unfinished interpretations.\u003cbr\u003e Mumford's focus is on the \"dialogue\" taking place between the lamaist and the shamanic regimes, as a historic development occurring between different cultural layers. The study powerfully demonstrates that interrelationships between subsystems within a given cultural matrix over time are critical to an understanding of religion as a cultural process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan Royal Mumford (1936-1993) was associate professor and chair of the department of anthropology and sociology at Albertson College of Idaho. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Humanism Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. \u003ci\u003eHimalayan Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of three years of fieldwork in Nepal, supported by Princeton University and by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.24 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 1989\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782390874400,"sku":"9780299119843","price":41.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f0a6d0b6c9eba5c9f165bfce06e752c0.webp?v=1780569535","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/himalayan-dialogue-tibetan-lamas-and-gurung-shamans-in-nepal-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}