My initial research among the Tamang - a Tibeto-Burman speaking population in Nepal - focused on ritual syncretism or hybridity: the relations among Buddhist, shamanic, and sacrificial practices in a society where people married their cross cousins.

My initial research among the Tamang - a Tibeto-Burman speaking population in Nepal - focused on ritual syncretism or hybridity: the relations among Buddhist, shamanic, and sacrificial practices in a society where people married their cross cousins.

2016年1月26日 · My research has focused over the last forty years on the Tamang, a Tibeto-Burman speaking population in highland Nepal. My research began with the study of their syncretic ritual system and its relation to social structure.

David Holmberg at Cornell University is an expert in Anthropology of the Himalayas, Forced labor, Maoist insurgency on Tamang villages, Myth and power in society, Ritual and power in society, Ritual syncretism, Social relations in South Asia and Tamang people of Nepal

2014年8月20日 · David Holmberg is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University, where he chaired the Department of Anthropology for 14 years. His ethnographic research has concentrated on the Tamang of Nepal, focusing initially on religion and social organization, culminating in the monograph Order and Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange ...

David Holmberg advises all Cornell Fulbright applicants. Find out more about Fulbright at Cornell. Geographic Research Area: Nepal and the Himalaya region. Teaching/Research Interests: Ritual syncretism, ritual and myth with power, state system of forced labor, and history of anthropology of the Himalayas

2015年10月14日 · History, like earthquakes, recurs at merciless intervals in the homelands of the Tamang in north central Nepal. Military conquest, government intervention, and ... More. The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) promotes creative research and critical conversation through its publications, events, and programs.

The Baha invited three anthropologists with long-term experience in various parts of Nepal, David Holmberg, Judy Pettigrew and Mukta S. Tamang, to offer their observations on the election,

some state functionaries were 'enemy territory' (Holmberg, 2006). Since Nepal's first 'people movement' beginning in 1990, through the Maoist insurgency and a second people's movement (1995-2006), and the abolition of monarchy in 2007, the Tamang, like an array of other adivasi-janajati, groups, have moved from the per

My initial research among the Tamang - a Tibeto-Burman speaking population in Nepal - focused on ritual syncretism or hybridity: the relations among Buddhist, shamanic, and sacrificial practices in a society where people married their cross cousins.