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Ritual, Conflict and Consensus: Case Studies from Asia and Europe

Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 432.Band

Ritual, Conflict and Consensus: Case Studies from Asia and Europe

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-7133-1
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-7254-3
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Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Preliminaries

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Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Table of Contents

v

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Preface and Acknowledgements

vii

Gabriela Kiliánová

Introduction: Ritual, Conflict and Consensus

1

Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

F®ictions, Frames and Fragments: Belonging and Ethnic Boundary- Making in Nepal’s Contested Ritual Communication

15

Christian Jahoda

Rituals between Conflict and Consensus: Case Studies of Village Festivals in Upper Kinnaur and Western Tibet

31

Maria-Katharina Lang

Ritual Objects between Conflict and Consensus: The Social Life of Sacred Artefacts during Periods of Political Transformation in Mongolia

51

Andre Gingrich

Paradise Lost, or Paradise Regained? Conceptions and Ideologies of Himah as a Ritual Site in the Highlands of South-Western Arabia

65

Tatiana Bužeková

Modern Faces of Ancient Wisdom: Neo-Shamanic Practices in a Slovak Urban Environment

75

Eva-Maria Knoll

Medical Tourism: Reflections on the Fusion of Two Powerful Rituals in a Complex World

91

Helmut Lukas

Ritual as a Means of Social Reproduction? Comparisons in Continental South-East Asia: the Lao-Kmhmu Relationship

103

Gebhard Fartacek

Rethinking Ethnic Boundaries: Rituals of Pilgrimage and the Construction of Holy Places in Syria

119

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Index

131

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

List of Contributors

141