The ethnography of Tantra : textures and contexts of living Tantric traditions / edited by Carola E. Lorea and Rohit Singh.
| Other author | Lorea, Carola Erika, 1987- editor. |
| Other author | Singh, Rohit (Religion historian), editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023] |
| Description | xv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Rethinking Tantra through Ethnography / Carola E. Lorea and Rohit Singh -- Part I. On Materiality and Mediation: Lived Practices of Texts, Objects and Media: 1. An Ethnography of Tantra in the Western Himalayas: The Material Substance of Practical Rituals / William S. Sax -- 2. Observing Participation, Transgressing Hermeneutics: Bali's Tantric Script Practices and the Limits of Participant Observation / Annette Hornbacher -- 3. The Conch as a Tantric Artefact: Metaphysics of a Number and the Twirled Lives of Text and Practice / Sukanya Sarbadhikary -- 4. WhatsApp Bagalāmukhī! Social Life and Experiences of a Tantric Goddess / Sravana Borkataky-Varma -- Part II. Embodiment, Identity and Experience: Conversations with Tantric Livelihoods: 5. Folk Tantra and Healing: An Ethnography of Traditional Healers in the Darjeeling Hills and Sikkim / Jarrod Hyam -- 6. Songs for Siddhi: An Ethnographic Analysis of Bāul Fakiri Sādhanā / Keith Edward Cantú -- 7. Serving the Divine Element in Humans: Everyday (Tantric) Vaiṣṇavism and What Begging Means to Bāuls / Kristin Hanssen -- Part III. Institutions and Individuals in the Making of Tantric Traditions: To Be or Become Tantric: 8. The Cremation Ground, the Battlefield and the Path of Compassion, Or: What Makes the Fabric of an Individual's Tantric Encounter? / Nike-Ann Schröder -- 9. The Spectrum of Eclecticism and Conservatism within Kerala's Tantric Traditions: A Case Study of Meppaṭ Sampradāya / Maciej Karasinski -- 10. Tantric Lives in Bengal and Bali: Towards a Comparative Ethnography / June McDaniel -- Afterword / Geoffrey Samuel -- List of Contributors. |
| Abstract | "Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ethnography of Tantra. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023] 9781438494852 |
| Genre/form | Case studies. |
| LCCN | 2022061689 |
| ISBN | 9781438494838 |
| ISBN | 1438494831 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |