International audienceTibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance to keeping their hair long. The importance of tantrists’ hair is particularly striking in Repkong county (northeastern Tibet), which is famous for its large number of tantrists, many of whom wear dreadlocks wound around their heads. This study of the Repkong tantrists’ capillary culture will argue that their hair, at the intersection between the bodily, the social and the political, constitutes an overdetermined religious identity marker. Bromberger’s analytical approach to hair, which focuses primarily on sociological factors such as group belonging or norm vs. marginality, is relevant here, but overlooks key cultural di...
Les Tibétains musulmans (khache) sont une partie intégrante de la société tibétaine depuis plus de t...
Please join us for the following talk: The great collective rituals of the Repkong tantrists: Identi...
Based from the study of a collection of human hairs gathered by scientific research and explorers, t...
Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance t...
Co-édité par Françoise Robin, Nicola Schneider et Nicolas SihléInternational audienceThis issue on h...
Ce numéro sur les cheveux et leur traitement dans l’aire culturelle tibétaine s’inscrit en dialogue ...
Cet article s’intéresse au versant féminin de la chevelure religieuse au Tibet que l’on peut disting...
Cet article explore la manière dont une lecture attentive de la littérature tibétaine contemporaine ...
This issue of Les Ateliers d’anthropologie on hair and its treatment in the Tibetan cultural area is...
The relation that mankind has with hair falls under the invariant. Like other societies, the ancient...
International audienceLong hair has had many meanings, both positive and negative in many cultures. ...
article de Lhamokyab Noyontsang, traduit du tibétain par Françoise Robin et Nicolas SihléInternation...
International audienceLong hair has had many meanings, both positive and negative in many cultures. ...
International audienceTibetan Buddhism is the only not western religion to have become established o...
This dissertation offers an ethnographic study of ngakpa/ma (sngags pa/ma, m.f.)–Tibetan Buddhist no...
Les Tibétains musulmans (khache) sont une partie intégrante de la société tibétaine depuis plus de t...
Please join us for the following talk: The great collective rituals of the Repkong tantrists: Identi...
Based from the study of a collection of human hairs gathered by scientific research and explorers, t...
Tibetan tantrists (non-monastic Buddhist practitioners of tantric rituals) attach great importance t...
Co-édité par Françoise Robin, Nicola Schneider et Nicolas SihléInternational audienceThis issue on h...
Ce numéro sur les cheveux et leur traitement dans l’aire culturelle tibétaine s’inscrit en dialogue ...
Cet article s’intéresse au versant féminin de la chevelure religieuse au Tibet que l’on peut disting...
Cet article explore la manière dont une lecture attentive de la littérature tibétaine contemporaine ...
This issue of Les Ateliers d’anthropologie on hair and its treatment in the Tibetan cultural area is...
The relation that mankind has with hair falls under the invariant. Like other societies, the ancient...
International audienceLong hair has had many meanings, both positive and negative in many cultures. ...
article de Lhamokyab Noyontsang, traduit du tibétain par Françoise Robin et Nicolas SihléInternation...
International audienceLong hair has had many meanings, both positive and negative in many cultures. ...
International audienceTibetan Buddhism is the only not western religion to have become established o...
This dissertation offers an ethnographic study of ngakpa/ma (sngags pa/ma, m.f.)–Tibetan Buddhist no...
Les Tibétains musulmans (khache) sont une partie intégrante de la société tibétaine depuis plus de t...
Please join us for the following talk: The great collective rituals of the Repkong tantrists: Identi...
Based from the study of a collection of human hairs gathered by scientific research and explorers, t...