Handling Death: The Dynamics of Death and Ancestor Rituals among the Newars of Bhaktapur, Nepal.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Handling death; the dynamics of death and ancestor rituals among the Newars of Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Gutschow, Niels and Axel Michaels.

Harrassowitz

2005

215 pages

$86.00

Hardcover

Ethno-Indology; v.3

DS493

Gutschow and Michaels include a film by Christian Bau (Handling Death with their accounts of Hindu rituals in which the Newar people honor their ancestors and, eventually, join them. They describe the role of locale, priests and purity specialists, and calendar rituals of death and renewal. They ...

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