Sacrifice and Violence

Reflections from an Ethnography in Nepal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-20
Mått:157 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:609 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:279
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009537490

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Marie Lecomte-Tilouine is a social anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, CNRS/EHESS/Collège de France, Paris. Her research focuses on religious strategies, mental representations, ethno-history, and the Maoist movement in the Himalayan region. She has coordinated several collective programs of research in Nepal and the Western Himalayas and is presently heading, in collaboration with Anne de Sales, an ANR program on the modalities of 'presentification' (or production of presence) of invisible powers in the Himalaya. She has published several monographs on these research areas, including Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival and Maoist Rebellion in Nepal, (ed.) Bards and Mediums: History, Culture and Politics in the Central Himalayan Kingdoms, (ed.) Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia, and (ed.) Revolution in Nepal: An Anthropological and Historical Approach to the People's War.

Innehållsförteckning

List of map and figures; Note on transliteration; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A violence that is not violence; 2. Theories of sacrifice, with or without violence; 3. Sacrificial violence in narrative forms; 4. Sacrificial practices and partitions; 5. The buffalo sacrifice; 6. Contestations of sacrifice: boycott and litigation; 7. Self-sacrifice versus sacrifice in the revolutionary struggle; Conclusion; References; Index.