David Holmberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3616778 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Holmberg |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Holmberg |
| ASSINATURA | HOLMBERG D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Order in Paradox
A Culture of Exchange and Its Paradoxes
Ethnographic agency, field assistants and the rise of cultural activism in Nepal
This paper explores 38 years of association and collaboration with Ngyema Karma Himdung in the genesis of ethnographic projects related to the western Tamang of Nepal. During this time, Tamang people have moved from the peripheral position of a degraded population to a dynamic presence in contemporary attempts to construct a 'new Nepal' and our work was structured in these transformations. I seek to point out how ethnographic agency paradoxically…
Transcendence, Power and Regeneration in Tamang Shamanic Practice
This article analyzes (1) the production of magical or symbolic power and (2) symbolic processes of transcendence in the rituals of Tamang shamans of highland Nepal, rituals that seek to transform the afflicted from abject subjects to active agents. In convergence with Terence Turner's theoretical contributions to the study of ritual, this article argues that magical power produced by Tamang shamans in curative soundings as well as collective pil…
Derision, Exorcism, and the Ritual Production of Power
In this article, I address theoretical constructions of ritually produced symbolic power in Tamang communities of Nepal. I relate dance-skits deriding dominant classes and violent exorcisms to the social production of this power. This symbolic power is an elementary form of power produced in the activity of ritual itself. The ritual analyzed could be characterized as defiant, and thus I address larger questions of ritual and resistance. [ritual, …
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
Himalayan Households
Mesocosm
High Religion
Order in Paradox
Elucidates particular anthropological problems, ranging from the theoretical problem of the analysis of complex ritual systems
Illness Beliefs and Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal. Linda STONE
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Ritual Paradoxes in Nepal
Every religious system in Nepal, including that of the Tamang, is multifaceted and has numerous practitioners. Without apparent contradiction, western Tamang simultaneously engage Buddhist lamas who preside over elaborate rites of death, sacrificiallambuwho propitiate chthonic divinities and exorcise harmful agents, and shamanicbombowho recapture lost shadow souls, revive life-force, unveil an enigmatic divine, and reveal. Interpretations of reli…
The North American Berdache [and Comments and Reply]
The status of berdache among North American Indians was filled by persons, usually male, who remained members of their biological gender but assumed important social characteristics of the other gender. Concentrated in western and midwestern North America, berdaches were few. The status tended to disappear after Indian societies came under outside political control. Male berdaches, particularly, combined the social roles assigned to both genders.…
The Play of the Gods
Shamanic Soundings
Ethnology
Outcastes in an "Egalitarian" society
DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v10i0.1149Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.10 2007 p.124-140
The North American Berdache [and Comments and Reply]
The status of berdache among North American Indians was filled by persons, usually male, who remained members of their biological gender but assumed important social characteristics of the other gender. Concentrated in western and midwestern North America, berdaches were few. The status tended to disappear after Indian societies came under outside political control. Male berdaches, particularly, combined the social roles assigned to both genders.…
Shamanic Soundings
Derision, Exorcism, and the Ritual Production of Power
In this article, I address theoretical constructions of ritually produced symbolic power in Tamang communities of Nepal. I relate dance-skits deriding dominant classes and violent exorcisms to the social production of this power. This symbolic power is an elementary form of power produced in the activity of ritual itself. The ritual analyzed could be characterized as defiant, and thus I address larger questions of ritual and resistance. [ritual, …
Ethnographic agency, field assistants and the rise of cultural activism in Nepal
This paper explores 38 years of association and collaboration with Ngyema Karma Himdung in the genesis of ethnographic projects related to the western Tamang of Nepal. During this time, Tamang people have moved from the peripheral position of a degraded population to a dynamic presence in contemporary attempts to construct a 'new Nepal' and our work was structured in these transformations. I seek to point out how ethnographic agency paradoxically…
Transcendence, Power and Regeneration in Tamang Shamanic Practice
This article analyzes (1) the production of magical or symbolic power and (2) symbolic processes of transcendence in the rituals of Tamang shamans of highland Nepal, rituals that seek to transform the afflicted from abject subjects to active agents. In convergence with Terence Turner's theoretical contributions to the study of ritual, this article argues that magical power produced by Tamang shamans in curative soundings as well as collective pil…
Mesocosm
Ritual Paradoxes in Nepal
Every religious system in Nepal, including that of the Tamang, is multifaceted and has numerous practitioners. Without apparent contradiction, western Tamang simultaneously engage Buddhist lamas who preside over elaborate rites of death, sacrificiallambuwho propitiate chthonic divinities and exorcise harmful agents, and shamanicbombowho recapture lost shadow souls, revive life-force, unveil an enigmatic divine, and reveal. Interpretations of reli…
The Play of the Gods
Outcastes in an "Egalitarian" society
DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v10i0.1149Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.10 2007 p.124-140
Outcastes in an "Egalitarian" society
DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v10i0.1149Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.10 2007 p.124-140
Ethnology
The North American Berdache [and Comments and Reply]
The status of berdache among North American Indians was filled by persons, usually male, who remained members of their biological gender but assumed important social characteristics of the other gender. Concentrated in western and midwestern North America, berdaches were few. The status tended to disappear after Indian societies came under outside political control. Male berdaches, particularly, combined the social roles assigned to both genders.…
The Play of the Gods
Shamanic Soundings
Ritual Paradoxes in Nepal
Every religious system in Nepal, including that of the Tamang, is multifaceted and has numerous practitioners. Without apparent contradiction, western Tamang simultaneously engage Buddhist lamas who preside over elaborate rites of death, sacrificiallambuwho propitiate chthonic divinities and exorcise harmful agents, and shamanicbombowho recapture lost shadow souls, revive life-force, unveil an enigmatic divine, and reveal. Interpretations of reli…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Order in Paradox
Elucidates particular anthropological problems, ranging from the theoretical problem of the analysis of complex ritual systems
Illness Beliefs and Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal. Linda STONE
High Religion
Mesocosm
Himalayan Households
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
Derision, Exorcism, and the Ritual Production of Power
In this article, I address theoretical constructions of ritually produced symbolic power in Tamang communities of Nepal. I relate dance-skits deriding dominant classes and violent exorcisms to the social production of this power. This symbolic power is an elementary form of power produced in the activity of ritual itself. The ritual analyzed could be characterized as defiant, and thus I address larger questions of ritual and resistance. [ritual, …
Transcendence, Power and Regeneration in Tamang Shamanic Practice
This article analyzes (1) the production of magical or symbolic power and (2) symbolic processes of transcendence in the rituals of Tamang shamans of highland Nepal, rituals that seek to transform the afflicted from abject subjects to active agents. In convergence with Terence Turner's theoretical contributions to the study of ritual, this article argues that magical power produced by Tamang shamans in curative soundings as well as collective pil…
Ethnographic agency, field assistants and the rise of cultural activism in Nepal
This paper explores 38 years of association and collaboration with Ngyema Karma Himdung in the genesis of ethnographic projects related to the western Tamang of Nepal. During this time, Tamang people have moved from the peripheral position of a degraded population to a dynamic presence in contemporary attempts to construct a 'new Nepal' and our work was structured in these transformations. I seek to point out how ethnographic agency paradoxically…
Order in Paradox
A Culture of Exchange and Its Paradoxes
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