The ethnography of Tantra : textures and contexts of living Tantric traditions / edited by Carola E. Lorea and Rohit Singh.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
Description
xv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Summary note
"Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9781438494838 (hardcover)
  • 1438494831 (hardcover)
LCCN
2022061689
OCLC
1378739021
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