The ethnography of Tantra: textures and contexts of living Tantric traditions
Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Albany
Sunny Press
[2023]
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| Verfasserangaben: | edited by Carola E. Lorea and Rohit Singh |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Rethinking Tantra through Ethnography / Carola E. Lorea and Rohit Singh
- Part I. On Materiality and Mediation: Lived Practices of Texts, Objects and Media: 1. An Ethnography of Tantra in the Western Himalayas: The Material Substance of Practical Rituals / William S. Sax
- 2. Observing Participation, Transgressing Hermeneutics: Bali's Tantric Script Practices and the Limits of Participant Observation / Annette Hornbacher
- 3. The Conch as a Tantric Artefact: Metaphysics of a Number and the Twirled Lives of Text and Practice / Sukanya Sarbadhikary
- 4. WhatsApp Bagalāmukhī! Social Life and Experiences of a Tantric Goddess / Sravana Borkataky-Varma
- Part II. Embodiment, Identity and Experience: Conversations with Tantric Livelihoods: 5. Folk Tantra and Healing: An Ethnography of Traditional Healers in the Darjeeling Hills and Sikkim / Jarrod Hyam
- 6. Songs for Siddhi: An Ethnographic Analysis of Bāul Fakiri Sādhanā / Keith Edward Cantú
- 7. Serving the Divine Element in Humans: Everyday (Tantric) Vaiṣṇavism and What Begging Means to Bāuls / Kristin Hanssen
- Part III. Institutions and Individuals in the Making of Tantric Traditions: To Be or Become Tantric: 8. The Cremation Ground, the Battlefield and the Path of Compassion, Or: What Makes the Fabric of an Individual's Tantric Encounter? / Nike-Ann Schröder
- 9. The Spectrum of Eclecticism and Conservatism within Kerala's Tantric Traditions: A Case Study of Meppaṭ Sampradāya / Maciej Karasinski
- 10. Tantric Lives in Bengal and Bali: Towards a Comparative Ethnography / June McDaniel
- Afterword / Geoffrey Samuel
- List of Contributors.