Description: Encompassing a Fractal World : The Energetic Female Core in Myth And Everyday Life-A Few Lessons Drawn From The Nepalese Himalaya, Hardcover by Daryn, Gil, ISBN 0739111736, ISBN-13 9780739111734, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Mandelbrot introduced the idea of fractals in the 1970s to characterize how repetitive patterns lead to complexity in nature. Daryn (Oriental and African studies, U. of London) invokes the concept in an ethnographic study of higher-caste Nepalese Hindus in the context of Hindu culture and cosmology. He analyzes the meaning of fractal-like marriage imagery as a lens on kinship, gender relations, sacred beliefs, rice cultivation and other major aspects of the society (some captured in b&w photos). Personal notes about conducting fieldwork in a remote Himalayan village and a glossary are appended. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Encompassing a Fractal World : The Energetic Female Core in Myth
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Encompassing a Fractal World : the Energetic Female Core in Myth and Everyday Life
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Subject: Hinduism / General, Cosmology, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2006
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Author: Gil Daryn
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Science
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Hardcover
