Etude ethnographique d'une communauté autochtone du sud-est de l'Himalaya, les Mutunci, plus communément appelés Lepchas. Les pratiques rituelles communautaires, les acteurs du pouvoir ou les cadres de pensée dans lesquels ils sont ancrés sont notamment abordés. ©Electre 2025

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A carefully woven exploration of ritual protection, changing power politics, and Indigenous survivance.

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 Mutunci Rong 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 Ungdók, protectors of land and water, at the core of her analysis.

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Paru le : 23/10/2025

Thématique : Sociologie de la culture

Auteur(s) : Auteur : Jenny Bentley

Éditeur(s) : SEISMO

Collection(s) : Non précisé.

Série(s) : Non précisé.

ISBN : 978-3-03777-288-1

EAN13 : 9783037772881

Reliure : Broché

Pages : 360

Hauteur: 23.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm

Épaisseur: 1.3 cm

Poids: 400 g