The sun rises : a shaman's chant, ritual exchange and fertility in the Apatani Valley / / by Stuart Blackburn
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| Autore: |
Blackburn Stuart H
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| Titolo: |
The sun rises : a shaman's chant, ritual exchange and fertility in the Apatani Valley / / by Stuart Blackburn
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (419 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.89/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Apatani (Indic people) - Rites and ceremonies |
| Oral tradition - India - Apatani Valley | |
| Apatani (Indic people) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Apatani Valley (India) |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-397) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Apatanis and their valley -- The Subu Heniin text -- The Murung festival -- The Nyibu performer -- The Subu Heniin in translation -- Conclusions and the future -- Appendices. Outline of Murung events ; Number of Murungs, 1944/1945-2009 ; Sacrificial shares for spirits and humans ; Transcription of the Subu Heniin ; Mudan Pai's life-history ; Feasts of merit in the extended Eastern Himalayas. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 present a full translation of the accompanying chant and to integrate it into the interpretation of the social significance of the total event. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sun rises |
| ISBN: | 1-282-78636-9 |
| 9786612786365 | |
| 90-474-2922-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816886303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; ; v. 16/3.