Handling Death: The Dynamics of Death Rituals and Ancestor Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur, Nepal

by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels

In a rare combination of competence, an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) have documented death rituals of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The first part of the book focusses to a specific setting, the ancient city of Bhaktapur and its calendric rituals of death and renewal. An introduction to the urban fabric with its cremation places, routes of death processions, places of spirits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447051604
• ISBN13: 9783447051606
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 10.1"