| 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 |
| • | Introduction: The Internal Structure of the Thar |
| • | Household and Household Size |
| • | Household Roles |
| • | Wives and Households |
| • | Household Hierarchy, Authority, and Purity and the Cipa System |
| The Comparative Freedom of the Newar Woman in the Northern Hindu Context |
| • | A Wife's Natal Household's Relation to Her Children: The Mother's Brother |
| • | Marriage |
| • | Remarriage And Multiple Marriage |
| • | The Lack of Hypergamic Implications of Marriage |
| • | Adoption and Marriage |
| • | Major Kin Groupings: (I) Kul, Phuki and Their Women |
| • | Major Kin Groupings: (II) Feminal Kin, Tha:Thiti |
| • | Phuki and Thar |
| • | Ritual Friendship and Fictive Kinship |
| • | Kinship Terminology |
| • | Guthis, Organizations for Special Purposes |
| • | The Inside of the Thars in Relation to the City's Mesocosm |
| 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 |
| 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 |