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Deathpower : Buddhism's ritual imagination in Cambodia /
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically recasts attitudes toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Getting Sited in Cambodia; 2. The Funeral; 3. Rice, Water, Hierarchy: The Wild and the Civil; 4. Building Deathpower and Rituals of Sovereignty; 5. Binding Mighty Death: The Craft and Authority of the Rag Robe in Cambodian Ritual Technology; 6. Gifts and Hungry Ghosts; 7. Eating Leftovers, Rumors, and Witchcraft; 8. Buddhism Makes Brahmanism; Notes; Khmer Glossary; Works Cited; Index.