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Ritual, power, and gender: explorations in the ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal, and Ireland
2000, Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture and Manohar Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi
in English
8173043647 9788173043642
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: I MEN, RITUAL AND POWER IN NORTH VANUATU
1 Rank and Leadership in Nduindui, Northern New Hebrides
2 Rethinking Old Problems: Matriliny, Secret Societies
and Political Evolution
3 Ritualized Homosexuality, Male Power and Political
Organization in North Vanuatu: A Comparative Analysis
4 The 'Hidden' Power of Male Ritual: The North
Vanuatu Evidence 1
5 Male Cults Revisited: The Politics of Blood versus
Semen 1
II BUDDHIST RITUAL AND CASTE HIERARCHY IN NEPA
6 Buddhism without Monks: The Vajrayana Religion
of the Newars of Kathmandu 1
7 Kumari or 'Virgin' Worship in Kathmandu Valley 1
8 Girls' Pre-Puberty Rites among the Newars of
Kathmandu Valley 2
9 Hierarchy and Complementarity in Newar Society 2
10 Procession and Pilgrimage in Newar Religion 2
III EXPLORATIONS IN IRISH CATHOLICISM
11 'Our Lady' versus the Bishops: Visions and Pilgrimages
in Contemporary Irish Catholicism 2
12 From Ecstasy to Power: The Transformation of Fantasy
into Religious Belief 3
General Index 3
Index of Persons 3.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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