| 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 |
| 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 |
| • | Introduction |
| • | Ghya: Caku Sa(n)lhu [10] |
| Biska: [20-29]: The Solar New Year Festival |
| Approaches to Meaning |
| • | 1. Biska: as a solar festival. |
| • | 2. Biska: as a structural focal sequence. |
| • | 3. Interactive versus parallel features: bases for solidarity. |
| • | 4. Human actors. |
| • | 5. Divine actors. |
| • | 6. Space. |
| • | 7. Narrative content. |
| • | 8. Rhetoric. |
| • | 9. The message. |
| 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 |