http://hdl.handle.net/2440/13907 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:17:03 GMT 2013-06-18T22:17:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78314 Title: Returning from the dead: Contested continuities in Tibetan Buddhism Author: Zivkovic, Tanya Maria Abstract: In this paper, I chronicle the cleavages in Tibetan Buddhist ideology and practice made apparent in the posthumous continuation of a spiritual exemplar’s life story. Traversing the life, death and purported transmigration of this figure into the body of another person, this paper examines the extension of life beyond biological confines. Death, in Tibetan Buddhist contexts, can be influenced by religious practice and the life course of a person can continue through time in new bodies. In Tibetan Buddhism the vectors of this extension commonly include sanctified institutions such as recognised reincarnation and embodiment in relics, but there are other less documented ways in which life continues. This paper will explore the phenomenon of rolang or the reanimation of the corpse, a topic that inspires new directions in death studies. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78314 2012-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78199 Title: Caste and ethnicity: socio-logics and implications for a federal state of Nepal Author: Gray, John Neville Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78199 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77993 Title: The gateway to the fly: christianity, continuity, and spaces of conversion in Papua New Guinea Author: Dundon, Alison Joy Abstract: By foregrounding space and the role it plays in the experience and recollection of conversion, Dundon illustrates how people conceptualise conversion to Christianity as meaningful. Her analysis of cultural continuity in terms of the parallels between practices and experiences of the ancestors and those of the missionaries draws attention to the importance of the places in which Gogodala live and move, and how they imagine the place to which they will travel to when they die (Wabila/Heaven). Conversion to Christianity, instigated by UFM missionaries and the establishment of the first UFM stations, churches and educational and health facilities, is perceived as a rupture, but not as traumatic and destructive. Rather, conversion is understood as a disjuncture between ‘before’ (when the ancestors did not know where they came from and its significance) and ‘now’ (when this has been revealed to them over time and through the spaces opened up between mission, church and community). Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77993 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77767 Title: Webs of significance: an ethnographer's account of anthropology at the University of Adelaide from 1973 to 2011 Author: Gray, John Neville Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:30:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2440/77767 2011-12-31T13:30:00Z