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The sun rises : a shaman's chant, ritual exchange and fertility in the Apatani Valley /
At the centre of this study is a shaman's chant performed during a three-week long feast in the eastern Himalayas. The book includes a translation of this 12-hour text chanted in Apatani, a Tibeto-Burman language, and a description of the events that surround it, especially ritual exchanges wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Sino-Tibetan |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 16/3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the centre of this study is a shaman's chant performed during a three-week long feast in the eastern Himalayas. The book includes a translation of this 12-hour text chanted in Apatani, a Tibeto-Burman language, and a description of the events that surround it, especially ritual exchanges with ceremonial friends, in which fertility is celebrated. The shaman's social role, performance and ritual language are also described. Although complex feasts, like this one among Apatanis, have been described in northeast India and upland Southeast Asia for more than a century, this is the first book to. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 401 pages, 22 pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-397) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047429227 9047429222 9789004175785 9004175784 |
| ISSN: | 1568-6183 ; |