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

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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
Subject AreaSocial Anthropology
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Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Preliminaries

page i

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Table of Contents

page v

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Preface and Acknowledgements

page vii

Gabriela Kiliánová

Introduction: Ritual, Conflict and Consensus

page 1

Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

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

page 15

Christian Jahoda

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

page 31

Maria-Katharina Lang

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

page 51

Andre Gingrich

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

page 65

Tatiana Bužeková

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

page 75

Eva-Maria Knoll

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

page 91

Helmut Lukas

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

page 103

Gebhard Fartacek

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

page 119

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

Index

page 131

Gabriela Kiliánová, Christian Jahoda, Michaela Ferencová

List of Contributors

page 141