| Mesocosm |
| PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
 | Chapter One Introduction |
 | PART ONE ORIENTATIONS AND CONTEXTS |
| Chapter Two Orientations |
| Chapter Three Nepal, the Kathmandu Valley, and Some History |
| Chapter Four Bhaktapur's Other Order |
| Chapter Five The Distribution of Roles: The Macrostatus System |
| Chapter Six Inside the Thars |
| PART TWO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MESOCOSM |
| Chapter Seven The Symbolic Organization of Space |
| Chapter Eight Bhaktapur's Pantheon |
| Chapter Nine Tantrism and the Worship of the Dangerous Deities |
| Chapter Ten Priests |
| Chapter Eleven Purity and Impurity: On the Borders of the Sacred |
| • | Introduction |
| • | A Tangle of Interpretations |
| • | What Is Polluted, And What Is Polluting? |
| • | Pollution, Ingestion, And Disgust |
| • | Bodies and Corporate Bodies and Their Exuviae |
| • | What Is Polluted and Polluting in Birth and Death? |
| The Management of Pollution in Bhaktapur: Avoidance, Surrogation, and Cleaning |
| • | The Purity Complex: Psychological Resonances and Social Order |
| PART THREE THE DANCE OF SYMBOLS |
| Chapter Twelve The Civic Ballet: Annual Time and the Festival Cycles |
| Chapter Thirteen The Events of the Lunar Year |
| Chapter Fourteen The Events of the Solar Cycle |
| Chapter Fifteen The Devi Cycle |
| Chapter Sixteen The Patterns and Meanings of the Festival Year |
| Chapter Seventeen What Is Bhaktapur that a Newar May Know It? |
| Appendix One Transliterations Used in the Text |
| Appendix Two Bhaktapur's Newar Hindu Thars Ranked By Macrosocial Status |
| Appendix Three Kinship Terminology |
| Appendix Four Types of Worship and Materials Used in Worship |
| Appendix Five A Catalogue of Annual Events and Their Distribution Throughout the Lunar Year |
| Appendix Six Rites of Passage and Death Ceremonies |
| Notes |
| GLOSSARY |
| REFERENCES |
| GENERAL INDEX |
| NAMES INDEX |