Guardians of Land and Water
The book offers a detailed analysis of the pluriverse of an Indigenous community in the south-eastern Himalaya. It is a rare deep-dive ethnography of the Mútunci Róng community – more commonly called by their exonym Lepcha – and of the ontologies and strategies activated in ritualised struggles to r...
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| description | The book offers a detailed analysis of the pluriverse of an Indigenous community in the south-eastern Himalaya. It is a rare deep-dive ethnography of the Mútunci Róng community – more commonly called by their exonym Lepcha – and of the ontologies and strategies activated in ritualised struggles to reduce marginality and ensure a good life. Based on over a decade of interactions, the author assembles community ritual practices and performances, their actors and power relations, as well as the histories and thought-frameworks they are embedded in. She shows how Mútunci Róng actors live and activate various understandings of self and the world depending on their respective spatio-temporal positioning. Through the ritual lens, the author analyses vulnerability and survivance and unravels multi-modal processes of constituting belonging to the place, community, and the Himalayan environment, putting the polysemic concept of Lyángdók Úngdók, protectors of land and water, at the core of her analysis. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1705152025-12-22T05:40:31Z Guardians of Land and Water Bentley, Jenny cultural transmission, unification of culture, Dzongu, ritual practice, nature worship, indigeneity, religious revival, Indian Himalayas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology The book offers a detailed analysis of the pluriverse of an Indigenous community in the south-eastern Himalaya. It is a rare deep-dive ethnography of the Mútunci Róng community – more commonly called by their exonym Lepcha – and of the ontologies and strategies activated in ritualised struggles to reduce marginality and ensure a good life. Based on over a decade of interactions, the author assembles community ritual practices and performances, their actors and power relations, as well as the histories and thought-frameworks they are embedded in. She shows how Mútunci Róng actors live and activate various understandings of self and the world depending on their respective spatio-temporal positioning. Through the ritual lens, the author analyses vulnerability and survivance and unravels multi-modal processes of constituting belonging to the place, community, and the Himalayan environment, putting the polysemic concept of Lyángdók Úngdók, protectors of land and water, at the core of her analysis. 2025-12-22T05:40:30Z 2025-12-22T05:40:30Z 2025-12-16T14:16:06Z 2025 book ONIX_20251216T151213_9783037772881_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109244 9783037772881 9783037779033 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170515 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109244/1/9783037772881.pdf Seismo 10.33058/seismo.30903 10.33058/seismo.30903 245b1e00-e247-4b65-a6af-8f43bc5221de 4bb461ae-a887-4564-b3a7-29e6d7e08318 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783037772881 9783037779033 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 348 Zurich [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung ror.org/00yjd3n13 open access |
| spellingShingle | cultural transmission, unification of culture, Dzongu, ritual practice, nature worship, indigeneity, religious revival, Indian Himalayas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology Guardians of Land and Water |
| title | Guardians of Land and Water |
| title_full | Guardians of Land and Water |
| title_fullStr | Guardians of Land and Water |
| title_full_unstemmed | Guardians of Land and Water |
| title_short | Guardians of Land and Water |
| title_sort | guardians of land and water |
| topic | cultural transmission, unification of culture, Dzongu, ritual practice, nature worship, indigeneity, religious revival, Indian Himalayas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology |
| topic_facet | cultural transmission, unification of culture, Dzongu, ritual practice, nature worship, indigeneity, religious revival, Indian Himalayas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology |
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