Davide Torri is currently a researcher at the Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts (official English translation of the SARAS [Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo]), at Sapienza University of Rome. In addition, he is associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Germany) and of the Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes of the CNRS (France). He co-edited Shamanism and Violence: Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (2013) and is the author of Il Lama e il Bombo: Sciamanismo e buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal (2014).

• Foreword by Graham Harvey; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Ethnicity and the state. Historical introduction to Nepal’s ethnic revival movements; 3 Notes towards a theory of landscape: from the animist landscape to the Buddhist beyul; 4 Secret and sacred. Yolmo as a beyul; 5 Shamans in Helambu; 6 Ritual dynamics; 7 Identity Matters; 8 Conclusions; Appendix 1 List of Indigenous Nationalities; Glossary; Bibliography

Davide Torri is currently a researcher at the Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts (official English translation of the SARAS [Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo]), at Sapienza University of Rome. In addition, he is associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Germany) and of the Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes of the CNRS (France). He co-edited Shamanism and Violence: Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (2013) and is the author of Il Lama e il Bombo: Sciamanismo e buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal (2014).

• Foreword by Graham Harvey; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Ethnicity and the state. Historical introduction to Nepal’s ethnic revival movements; 3 Notes towards a theory of landscape: from the animist landscape to the Buddhist beyul; 4 Secret and sacred. Yolmo as a beyul; 5 Shamans in Helambu; 6 Ritual dynamics; 7 Identity Matters; 8 Conclusions; Appendix 1 List of Indigenous Nationalities; Glossary; Bibliography

Davide Torri is currently a researcher at the Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts (official English translation of the SARAS [Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo]), at Sapienza University of Rome. In addition, he is associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Germany) and of the Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes of the CNRS (France). He co-edited Shamanism and Violence: Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (2013) and is the author of Il Lama e il Bombo: Sciamanismo e buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal (2014).

• Foreword by Graham Harvey; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Ethnicity and the state. Historical introduction to Nepal’s ethnic revival movements; 3 Notes towards a theory of landscape: from the animist landscape to the Buddhist beyul; 4 Secret and sacred. Yolmo as a beyul; 5 Shamans in Helambu; 6 Ritual dynamics; 7 Identity Matters; 8 Conclusions; Appendix 1 List of Indigenous Nationalities; Glossary; Bibliography