Abstract
The spring archery festival is an event of prime importance for each village of Zanskar, a high Himalayan valley of Tibetan culture (administered by the Jammu and Kashmir Indian State). Besides competitive shootings, the Zanskari archery festival comprises numerous events and lasts several days. In Zangla, once a royal capital, the event is combined with another lay celebration which is intercalated in the archery program : between two days of shooting, a ritual ploughing takes place together with a wedding parody and a horse-race. After a detailed description of the Zangla archery festival as it occurred in 1994, the analysis highlights the celebration’s symbolic ends. These are prosperity, prestige, established order and village cohesion, embodied in the archetypal figures of the buffoon, the hero, the king and the outsider
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