{"product_id":"sacrifice-and-violence-reflections-from-an-ethnography-in-nepal-hardback-9781009537490","title":"Sacrifice and Violence; Reflections from an Ethnography in Nepal (Hardback) 9781009537490","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSacrifice and Violence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReflections from an Ethnography in Nepal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudies what sacrifice means using long-term ethnographic data and its close relationship with power and social organisation in Nepal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarie Lecomte-Tilouine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009537490, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eViolence is at the heart of the sacrifice, despite its denial in the texts. For the participants and observers, it materialises in the exposure of everyone and everything to the 'fountains of blood'. The specificity of this public and holistic violence, orchestrated in Nepal by the highest dignitaries and aimed at the rejuvenation of the cosmic, political and social order, allows us to see sacrifice as the ultimate model of legitimate violence. At the same time, observation reveals its oxymoronic nature through the opposite effect its violence has on its participants. As such, sacrifice is not only the organiser of society, but also the revelator of its internal tensions and fault lines. The book explores the complex aspects of royal ceremonies, their contestation by different groups, and finally the contours of the new legitimacy that sacrifice found during the revolutionary period under its most extreme form of human sacrifice.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of map and figures\u003cbr\u003e Note on transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. A violence that is not violence\u003cbr\u003e 2. Theories of sacrifice, with or without violence\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sacrificial violence in narrative forms\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sacrificial practices and partitions\u003cbr\u003e 5. The buffalo sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e 6. Contestations of sacrifice: boycott and litigation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Self-sacrifice versus sacrifice in the revolutionary struggle\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462926070040,"sku":"9781009537490","price":68.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009537490i.jpg?v=1785542493","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sacrifice-and-violence-reflections-from-an-ethnography-in-nepal-hardback-9781009537490","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}