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The Rulings of the Night-


An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts Gregory G Maskarinec
Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, 2000 (Reprint)
Rs 650

This book, based on exceptional fieldwork, makes an important contribution to the anthropology of language and ritual. Maskarinec shows how the words themselves illuminate the play between shamanic prayers and social reality in the Nepal Himalaya.


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638
(11 JAN 2013 - 17 JAN 2013)


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