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Feast, Ritual and Daughters among the Newāḥ of Nepal

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Feast, Ritual and Daughters among the Newāḥ of Nepal

By: Sipoy Sarveswar

£59.99

This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters' special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.

This book highlights the significance of food and feasts, employing it as an analytical tool to understand a community’s social organisation. It also offers a…

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Author: Sipoy Sarveswar ISBN: 1-0364-4198-9 Categories: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology

This book highlights the significance of food and feasts, employing it as an analytical tool to understand a community’s social organisation. It also offers a detailed account of the life-cycle rituals that a community practices, which entail various kinship obligations to exchange food, considered to be one of the major gifts among the Newāḥ of Nepal. In analysing the kinship obligations, this book considers the married daughters’ special role in the Newāḥ society. The ethnographic data collected from the Newāḥ of Nepal anthropologically illustrates how the socially-imbibed value structure permits the kin and non-kin alike to devise a sharing mechanism as an integral part of their culture. The book will be of great interest to students who pursue courses in South Asian cultural studies, kinship organisation, and Nepal studies.

Dr Sipoy Sarveswar works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. His research focuses on understanding the significance of kinship and community with special reference to the rhetoric of the state and the market. His research interests include South Asian politics, culture and kinship studies, non-kinship group formations, civil society organisations, and caste studies.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-0364-4198-9
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4198-2
Date of Publication: 2025-04-24

Ebook

ISBN: 1-0364-4199-7
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4199-9
Date of Publication: 2025-04-24

Categories: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology

Pages: 190

Subject Codes:

BIC: JH, JF, JHBK
THEMA: JH, JB, JHBK

Pages: 190

"Dr. Sipoy Sarveswar’s present book, offers a rich ethnographic data on Newar society of Thecho, a traditional Newar town in the Nepal Valley, situated in the south of Lalitpur metropolitan city. Based on his field research, Dr. Sarveswar provides us an insight into the Newar caste system, caste bound duties, lifecycle and death related rituals, feasts and festivals, and the duties of different guthis, the socio-religious associations in this book. […] Although, Thecho is a small Newar town in terms of its area and population, this study depicts a characteristic view of the Newar society. It is certain that academics as well as students, especially those involved in South Asian studies will highly benefit from this book."
- Bal Gopal Shrestha University of Oxford
"This book sheds light on the social and the religious life of a Newar village in the Kathmandu Valley, a village mainly inhabited by Jyapus farmers (and Gathu gardeners). Sarveswar Sipoy's careful ethnography clearly shows that Jyapu communities are the repository of an old, sophisticated indigenous heritage, unique in the Himalayas."
- Gérard Toffin Emeritus Director of Research at CNRS, Paris

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