Books by "Alexander Philip Wilson Philip"
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The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in this Country
by Alexander Vietts Blake
1847
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2014.
In Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present. While Smith surveys a variety of ritual practices, the volume focuses on divination and its associated rites in the contemporary Tibetan Bon tradition. Drawing from multi-site ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Himachal Pradesh and the translation of previously unpublished Tibetan language materials, Divination in Exile offers a valuable, social scientific contribution to our understanding of the perception and usage of ritual manuscripts in contemporary Tibetan cultural milieus.