Sacrifice as pervasive metaphor and creative principle: on Marie Lecomte-Tilouine’s Sacrifice et Violence
In a sense this is the book Marie Lecomte-Tilouine has been waiting all her career to write. Invited as an honoured guest on her very first visit to Nepal to see the bloody sacrifices of Dasain, confronted with sacrificial practices everywhere she went over the following decades of field research,...
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2024
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| Sažetak: | In a sense this is the book Marie Lecomte-Tilouine has been waiting all her career to write. Invited as an honoured guest on her very first visit to Nepal to see the bloody sacrifices of Dasain, confronted with sacrificial practices everywhere she went over the following decades of field research, it is a subject she has written on in many contexts already (as well as co-editing the important comparative collection, Célébrer le pouvoir: Dasain, une fête royale au Népal, 1996). As one would e... |
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