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| ===On Why It Is Good to Have Many Names=== | ===On Why It Is Good to Have Many Names=== |
| | Descriptions of Newar society inevitably describe the complexities of religious belonging. This is the first of several papers in which I sought to understand it in its own terms, as a coherent and elegant social system that did not need to be defined using Eurocentric terms such as 'syncretism'. By shifting the emphasis from individuals, lineages, or castes to shrines and their images, the pragmatic, tolerant, and flexible process of ascription became clear, and in so doing I was able to add a complementary term ('polyonomy') to Carrither's term for plural practice ('polytropy'). The version published in 2005 is [[https://tending.to/filingcabinet/Tuladhar-Douglas2005.pdf|here]] |
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| ===The Work of Mending=== | ===The Work of Mending=== |
| This was published as a chapter in Glenn Bowman's fine edited volume //Sharing the Sacra// . It's a discussion of how Newars in Pharping undertake verbal and social work to create an inclusive, tolerant society even when Tibetan refugees living in Pharping explicitly reject the performance of a key ritual. There's a link to the published version [[https://tending.to/filingcabinet/The_Work_of_Mending.pdf|here]]. | This was published as a chapter in Glenn Bowman's fine edited volume //Sharing the Sacra// . It's a discussion of how Newars in Pharping undertake verbal and social work to create an inclusive, tolerant society even when Tibetan refugees living in Pharping explicitly reject the performance of a key ritual. There's a link to the published version [[https://tending.to/filingcabinet/The_Work_of_Mending.pdf|here]]. |
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