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The Coronavirus came with the (One of the) World : what the ritual treatment of Coronavirus in a Himalayan Valley can teach us

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April 2019. In an indigenous community in the Nepalese Himalayas, a ritual is performed for Sansari, 'the One of the World', to ward off coronavirus. Why respond to an epidemic with a ritual ? On what basis do we associate a virus with a spiritual entity ? How do we articulate anchoring in tradition and innovation ? What does all this tell us about the relationship of this population to the world ? In addition to a film on this ritual, this article proposes avenues of analysis and reflection on procedures of interpretation, of integration of the new and the foreign into a local system of knowledge and defense.

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hal-04224974 , version 1 (02-10-2023)

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Grégoire Schlemmer. The Coronavirus came with the (One of the) World : what the ritual treatment of Coronavirus in a Himalayan Valley can teach us. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022, 29, en ligne [17 p.]. ⟨10.4000/samaj.8235⟩. ⟨hal-04224974⟩
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