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ISBN 978-3-946054-71-9 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3-946054-70-2 (PDF) ISBN 978-3-946054-72-6 (ePUB)
Revised version (corrections of typesetting mistakes)
Zur kultur- und ritualwissenschaftlichen Analyse »neuer« Rituale, 2012
Die Drucklegung dieses Buches wurde durch die großzügige Förderung der Deutschen Forschungsgemein... more Die Drucklegung dieses Buches wurde durch die großzügige Förderung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft im Rahmen des SFB 619 »Ritualdynamik« an der Universität Heidelberg ermöglicht.
Design Kulturen: Der erweiterte Designbegriff im Entwurfsfeld der Kulturwissenschaften. ed. Yana Milev, 2013
Zur kultur- und ritualwissenschaftlichen Analyse »neuer« Rituale, 2012
Books by Christof Zotter
This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyo... more This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective”, held in October 2015 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts from different fields—including Indology, Tibetology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Digital Humanties—it aims at exploring and rethinking issues of diplomatics and typology, the place of documents in relation to other texts and literary genres, methods of archiving and editing documents, as well as their “social life”, i.e. the role they play in social, religious and political constellations, the agents and practices of their use, and the norms and institutions they embody and constitute.
The book is the first volume of the Documenta Nepalica – Book Series, published by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with the National Archives, Nepal.
After its integration into the series of life-cycle rituals (saṃskāra) in the first millennium BC... more After its integration into the series of life-cycle rituals (saṃskāra) in the first millennium BC, the Brahmanical initiation (upanayana) underwent continual revision and reinterpretation. Today it is performed during a ritual complex called vratabandha, in which it is conducted together with three other saṃskāras, the whole set being embedded in a preliminary and framing ritual.
For the present volume, a combination of textual studies and fieldwork was employed to examine the principles by which a particular Vedic school (the White Yajurveda) and a concrete context (the vratabandha of Nepalese Bāhuns and Chetrīs) combines and adapts elements of different types of ritual (saṃskāra, pūjā, homa, etc.) in order to accommodate itself to changing times and circumstances.
The detailed formal analysis provides a key to interpreting the meaning of the whole complex of acts that constitute a vratabandha, in which the initiate temporarily becomes an ascetic in order to be initiated into his future householder role as a ritual practitioner.
ISBN 978-3-946054-71-9 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-3-946054-70-2 (PDF) ISBN 978-3-946054-72-6 (ePUB)
Revised version (corrections of typesetting mistakes)
Zur kultur- und ritualwissenschaftlichen Analyse »neuer« Rituale, 2012
Die Drucklegung dieses Buches wurde durch die großzügige Förderung der Deutschen Forschungsgemein... more Die Drucklegung dieses Buches wurde durch die großzügige Förderung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft im Rahmen des SFB 619 »Ritualdynamik« an der Universität Heidelberg ermöglicht.
Design Kulturen: Der erweiterte Designbegriff im Entwurfsfeld der Kulturwissenschaften. ed. Yana Milev, 2013
Zur kultur- und ritualwissenschaftlichen Analyse »neuer« Rituale, 2012
This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyo... more This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective”, held in October 2015 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts from different fields—including Indology, Tibetology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Digital Humanties—it aims at exploring and rethinking issues of diplomatics and typology, the place of documents in relation to other texts and literary genres, methods of archiving and editing documents, as well as their “social life”, i.e. the role they play in social, religious and political constellations, the agents and practices of their use, and the norms and institutions they embody and constitute.
The book is the first volume of the Documenta Nepalica – Book Series, published by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with the National Archives, Nepal.
After its integration into the series of life-cycle rituals (saṃskāra) in the first millennium BC... more After its integration into the series of life-cycle rituals (saṃskāra) in the first millennium BC, the Brahmanical initiation (upanayana) underwent continual revision and reinterpretation. Today it is performed during a ritual complex called vratabandha, in which it is conducted together with three other saṃskāras, the whole set being embedded in a preliminary and framing ritual.
For the present volume, a combination of textual studies and fieldwork was employed to examine the principles by which a particular Vedic school (the White Yajurveda) and a concrete context (the vratabandha of Nepalese Bāhuns and Chetrīs) combines and adapts elements of different types of ritual (saṃskāra, pūjā, homa, etc.) in order to accommodate itself to changing times and circumstances.
The detailed formal analysis provides a key to interpreting the meaning of the whole complex of acts that constitute a vratabandha, in which the initiate temporarily becomes an ascetic in order to be initiated into his future householder role as a ritual practitioner.