The anthropology of tacit knowledge in the domestic mandala: a case study of chhetris in the Kathmandu Valley

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dc.contributor.authorGray, J.
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe epigraphs encapsulate the two major themes of this paper. As Bachelard's quotation suggests, Chhetri houses are not simply functional places for everyday living. Instead, the house and its surrounding compound are also an encompassing cosmos in which Chhetris of the Kathmandu Valley dwell and come to understand its fundamental principles.1 In their everyday activities of preparing, cooking and eating rice, Chhetri Householders spatially configure their domestic compounds into mandalas-sacred diagrams that are simultaneously maps of the cosmos and machines for revealing the truth of cosmos as a fundamental unity. At the same time, such everyday dwelling in a domestic mandalas is productive of knowledge of the cosmos they represent.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityJohn Gray
dc.identifier.citationOccasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology, 2009; 11:255-278
dc.identifier.doi10.3126/opsa.v11i0.3040
dc.identifier.issn2091-0312
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/59099
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTribhuvan University, Kirtipur
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dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.3126/opsa.v11i0.3040
dc.titleThe anthropology of tacit knowledge in the domestic mandala: a case study of chhetris in the Kathmandu Valley
dc.typeJournal article
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