Book cover of Getting Married

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ISBN 978-3-948791-88-9 (PDF)

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02/28/2024
The book was originally published by Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden in 2012. ISBN: 978-3-447-06663-1

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Niels Gutschow, Axel Michaels

Getting Married

Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal

With contributions by Manik Bajracharya, Christiane Brosius, and Tessa Pariyar

Getting Married is the third and final volume on Hindu and Buddhist life-cycle rituals among the Newars of the ancient city of Bhaktapur in Nepal. It combines extensive fieldwork and the edition and translation of relevant ritual handbooks. While Handling Death, the first volume, focussed on the dynamics of death and ancestor rituals, and Growing Up, the second volume, focussed on the rituals of childhood, adolescence and youth (especially the male and female initiation rituals), the present volume deals with a number of rituals related to marriage.
After an introductory overview of studies on marriage rituals in Nepal the authors give some basic marriage rules of Hindu and Buddhist Newars, the social topography and hierarchy, the families of the marriage partners as well as the problems of endogamy and exogamy in Bhaktapur. They present a detailed description of Hindu and Buddhist marriage rituals among Newars (which are partly documented on the DVD included in this book) and come to relevant conclusions regarding life-cycle rituals in general and the place marriage rituals occupy in Newar society and Hinduism. Furthermore the texts used by Brahmin and Buddhist priests during these rituals are edited and translated and complemented by comprehensive Appendices including a list of elements of Newar rituals and mantras as well as a mantra and general index to all three volumes. The richly illustrated books have been highly appreciated by the scholarly community as a unique attempt to provide a comprehensive ethno-indological study of all major life-cycle rituals of a certain Hindu and Buddhist community.

The film, which was originally published on a DVD accompanying the book, is archived in the heidICON multimedia database and can be viewed via the following link:
Getting Married

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Titelei
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Contents
i-ii
Foreword
1-6
Introduction
7-17
Part I – Marriage Arrangements
18-75
Part II - The Rituals
76-137
Part III – Conclusions: Facets of Newar Rituals
138-164
Part IV – The Texts
165-310
Part V– Appendices
311-359
References
360-368
Mantra Index
369-374
General Index
375-412

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