Foreword by Graham Harvey
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Ethnicity and the state. Historical introduction to Nepal’s ethnic revival movements
3 Notes towards a theory of landscape: from the animist landscape to the Buddhist beyul
4 Secret and sacred. Yolmo as a beyul
5 Shamans in Helambu
6 Ritual dynamics
7 Identity Matters
8 Conclusions
Appendix 1 List of Indigenous Nationalities
Glossary
Bibliography
Biography
Davide Torri is currently a researcher at the Department of History Anthropology Religions Performing Arts (official English translation of the SARAS [Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo]), at Sapienza University of Rome. In addition, he is associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Germany) and of the Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes of the CNRS (France). He co-edited Shamanism and Violence: Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (2013) and is the author of Il Lama e il Bombo: Sciamanismo e buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal (2014).
