Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal
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8120810384
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xxii+829p., Plates; Figures; Maps; Tables; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; References; Index; 23cm.
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Mesocosm offers an entirely new understanding of the role of a traditional Hindu city in the lives of its inhabitants. Formerly the capital of Nepal, the city of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley was, by the mid-1970s, the last surviving example of a kind of city once characteristic of archaic civilizations. In Bhaktapur, Hinduism reached its fullest potential for organizing communities. Robert Levy was able to document Bhaktapur’s unique structure, in which ...
