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Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Edition 1998. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Edition 1998. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Softcover. Zustand: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Edition 1998. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Edition 1998. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Softcover. Zustand: Très bon. Edition 2005. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Edition 2005. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Paperback, spine discolored, minor traces of use, else in (very) good condition. Text in French. Please see description or ask for photos.

Zustand: New. pp. 114.

Foldout map, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 443pp, minimal foxing edges, still a very good paperback copy. "Newar Society brings to the Anglophone world French anthropologist Gérard Toffin's work on the Newars. The book is of extreme importance for Newar studies, and it is also beneficial for other scholars who are interested in Nepal's unique form of South Asian Himalayan culture. Toffin is director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and has been conducting research in Nepal for more than thirty-five years. His classic Société et religion chez les Néwars du Nepal is based on research in the village of Pyangaon and the small city of Panauti. Newar Society widens his reach and is founded on a number of different research locations in the Kathmandu and Banepa valleys. As the book's introduction states, the study gives "an overall picture of some of the essential features of Newar society." (Publisher's description).

in-octavo, 207 pp., 159 illustrations dans le texte, br Collection ArchitecturesTrès bon état.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China critically reflects on the social, cultural and political processes that have shaped these societies since the 1950s. By and large, ethnic minorities have emerged as powerful groups in the internal politics in most parts of South Asia and the Far East. In an attempt to partly accommodate the political and economic aspirations of some of these ethnic groups, in India, the authorities have created smaller states on the basis of language, culture, and in some cases economic backwardness. The Indian Union has formed autonomous district councils, paving the way (in Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland and Mizoram) for an asymmetrical form of federalism where special powers are devolved to local units. In Nepal, ethnic minorities include economically and culturally diverse groups scattered over the country. Inspired by the Indian experiment, the political elite in Nepal is now seeking to institutionalize procedures to fully integrate the adivasis/janajatis as citizens. While India and Nepal largely recognize the emergence of these ethnic minorities as political actors, the Chinese state, ignoring the political demands of its minorities, is focussing on their economic development and their modernization.

Zustand: New. xiii + 379.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Introduction: Nepal revisited. 1. The idea of Nepal. 2. Facets of identity. 3. The architecture of memory. 4. The locus of religion. 5. Shifting patterns of culture. 6. Images and imagination. 7. Theatre and performances. 8. Social whirl. 9. Social ties, exclusion and the self. 10. Revolutions. 11. Predicament of democracy. 12. Nature in translation. 13. Economy and development. Epilogue. Index. This book aims primarily at painting a comprehensive portrait of Nepal, between past and present. More specifically, it seeks to provide a better understanding of the recent tumultuous changes that have taken place in the country. Emphasis is laid on the rise of the individual, despite the remarkable resistance of traditional forms of belonging at family and caste level. The work of imagination in Nepalese society is of particular interest. The author contends that mental images, the system of values and ideological dimensions play a vital role in the cultural realm and political life. Similarly, religion is pivotal in the construction of selfhood and social life. From a methodological viewpoint, Imagination and Realities stands at the crossroads between anthropology, sociology and history. It is by combining these three different disciplines that the dialectics between local and global, particular and general can be most suitably considered. The book is based on intimate and continuous contact with Nepal over the last forty-five years. (jacket).

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 2nd Edition. Contents: Introduction/Gerard Toffin. I. The Terai: 1. A Tharu house in the Dang Valley/Camille Milliet Mondon. II. The middle country of Indo-Nepalese castes: 1. The Indo-Nepalese house in central Nepal: building patterns, social and religious symbolism/Marc Gaborieau. 2. From the fountain to the fireplace: the daily itinerary in domestic space among high Indo-Nepalese castes/Veronique Bouillier. II. The Kathmandu Valley: the Newar world: 3. Urban space and religion: observations on Newar urbanism/Gerard Toffin. 4. Traditional Newar building practices in the Kathmandu Valley/Marcel Le Port. 5. The pode house: a caste of Newar fishermen/Gerard Toffin, Vincent Barre, Laurence and Patrick Berger. III. The tribal hill zone: 6. With head held high: the house, ritual and politics in East Nepal/Philippe Sagant. 7. How I built my house/Corneille Jest. 8. Habitat of Nepalese transhumant pastoralists/Philippe Alirol. 9. Settlements and houses in the Thak Khola/Francis Morillon and Philippe Thouveny. V. The upper Himalayan Valleys: 10. Settlements in Dolpo/Corneille Jest. 11. Two houses in the Tibetan cultural tradition: in pisang (Nyi-shang) and in Stongde (Zanskar)/Pascal Marechaux. 12. Vernacular house form in Ladakh/Paul Murdoch. 13. Postscript/Luc Barre, Corneille Jest and Gerard Toffin. From the preface second edition: This book was first published in French in 1981 by CNRS, National Centre for scientific Research (France), under the title L' Homme et la Maison en Himalaya. Man and his house in the Himalayas particularly highlights the symbolic dimensions of the house in this region of Asia. Beyond their physical contours, the dwelling and settlements of the Himalayan range embody a number of social and religious implicit meanings. They reverberate ideas and representations about the cosmos, the relations of power within family or village, the opposition between the sacred and the profane, as well as the dichotomy between sexes. In the major languages spoken in Nepal, for instance, house terms convey interesting parallels with the human body. Several examples are given in the book. These parallels are not mere coincidences. They transform dwellings in meaningful spaces for their inhabitants. Through these complex processes of symbolization, the materiality of constructions is transfigured. The house is metamorphosed in a symbolic space, a matrix of ideologies rituals and mental images, which must be explored thoroughly.

Durchgehend bebildert. 99 S. 24 x 30 cm, Kt. Used, but good condition. / Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, sonst gut erhalten. Nachhaltige Buchlieferung - Stabile, plastikfreie Verpackung.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R200127466: 1996. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Quelques rousseurs. 314 pages - papier jauni, coins frottés, dos plié. . . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R300329689: 1998. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 314 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages.

Couverture souple. Zustand: Très bon état. In-8 broché 24 cm sur 17. 291 pages. Très bon état d'occasion.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Newar traditional dance theatre is one of the major theatrical traditions of the Himalayas. In this ethnographically grounded book, Gérard Toffin explores this crucial element of Newar culture and society. The study focuses on monographically oriented case studies, based both on Newar villages and towns, as well as on the main general characteristics of these performances and their role in Newar civilization. Strikingly enough, this traditional theatre is mainly derived from India but has become fully and genuinely Newarized over the centuries. It gives preference to mythological themes, divine or royal intrigues, far from the daily realities of the people. The performances favor dance, music, stylized gestures, and very rarely includes dialogues. They are fundamentally non-realistic, save, notably, for satirical and comical plays which play a crucial role. Newar dance theatre belongs to the traditional type of performance. There is limited room for individualism. Reference to the past and to religion dominates. Plays are organized around kinship groups, gender, local territories, and on the ancient caste system. They are governed by premodern rules, they exclude women and rest on a strict hierarchy between the characters, whether divine or royal. In all these topics, they stand in stark contrast to Nepali modern theatre, which is much more concerned with contemporary stakes.About the Author Gerard Toffin is a social anthropologist and emeritus senior researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is currently member of CESAH, Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies, Aubervilliers. He has carried out extensive fieldwork among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley and has published widely on this Nepalese ethnic group, including the monograph Newar Society: City, Village and Periphery (2007), as well as on other subjects concerning Nepal and the Himalayas: The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas. Local Attachments and Boundary Dynamics (Delhi, 2011) and Facing Globalization in the Himalayas. Belonging and the Politics of the Self (Delhi, 2014), in collaboration with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, as well as: Imagination and Realities. Nepal between Past and Present (Delhi, 2016). He has published (in French or English) altogether about 180 articles and ten major books. His research presently focuses on Newar theatrical performances and the anthropology of theatre; see for instance his edited book, Théâtresd Asie à l uvre (2012).

4°. 140 Pages. Original Flexible Boards. Ex-Library-Copy. Library-Sticker on the Spine. Library-Stamp [dropped out] on Front-Endpaper. Inside otherwise good Condition. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No private Owner's Note! Cover only with small Signs of Usage! Text in French Language! (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 49).

broché. Zustand: bon état, usage. la quête de l'autre, in-8 156.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon. 1 vol. 24 x 17 cm, 158 pages Broché sous converture illustrée rempliée, abondamment illustré noir & couleur, ouvrage particulièrement intéressant sur l'histoire de l'ethnologie par un de ses grands spécialistes 13A2 350g.

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Couverture souple. Zustand: Très bon état. Livre en anglais. In-8 broché 24 cm sur 16. VIII-377 pages. Très bon état d'occasion. Sommaire, notes, bibliographies.