Sherry B Ortner

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High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa BuddhismPaperback, 21 September 1989

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Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History (Paperback)
Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History, 9
Print Length
269 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
21 Sep 1989
ISBN-10
0691028435
ISBN-13
9780691028439

Description

An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis.

At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed back upon those intentions and actions on the other. It will appeal not only to the increasing number of anthropologists working on similar problems but also to historians anxious to discover what anthropology has to offer to historical analysis. In addition, it will be essential reading for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general.

Product Details

Author:
Sherry B Ortner
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 September 1989
Dimensions:
23.47 x 15.54 x 1.7 cm
Genre:
Buddhist
ISBN-10:
0691028435
ISBN-13:
9780691028439
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
269
Weight:
362.87 gm

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