Author: Holmberg, David H.
Title: Order in Paradox : Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1989). orig. cloth, dustwrapper. xvi, 265 pp, 23x15cm,. Textual Map & Photos. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Elementary Structures in Rural Life; Tamang Comparatively Reconstructed; A Culture of Exchange & Its Paradoxes; Panoramas of Cosmic & Temporal Orders; Sacrificial Ordination; Shamanic Soundings; An Amonastic Buddhism; Ritual Polarities, Mythic Imagination, and History.

Keywords: Nepal, Anthropology, Himalayan Shamanism, Tamang people, Sociology, Ethnography, Folk Buddhism, Ritual, Myth