Anthropology

Anthropology
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ISSN: 2332-0915

Bishnu Prasad Dahal

Patan Multiple Campus, Patan Dhoka Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Biography

Bishnu Prasad Dahal is currently working as a Asst. Professor of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals. His area of interest includes Social Anthropology, Culture and Environment.

Publications
  • Research Article   
    Bullfight Festival, Socialization and Entertainment in Taruka -Nepal
    Author(s): Bishnu Prasad Dahal*

    The key to the interpretation of the Takura is bullfight through “entertainment.” It has been the structuring value for  most of the Taruka society, but based on the principle that festivals, creates entertainment in a way and, in another way, it acts as the mechanism for integrating society. Festivals can also be interpreted as the informal mechanism of reducing tensions, conflict and social stress in diverse society where people of different caste, ethnicity, and religions were live.Bullfight is in Taruka function as the means of entertainment on the occasion of Maghe or Makar Sankranti manifestly, and latently, it creates the opportunity of interactions of different people from different background, it also helps to establish the marriage relationship and kinship bond to create family; it also acts as the social platform to exchange commodities, values, sentiments,.. View More»
    DOI: 10.35248/2332-0915.20.8.211

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