The sun rises
a shaman's chant, ritual exchange, and fertility in the Apatani Valley
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Word Count
100,250 words, Guess
Page Count
401 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-109004175784
- ISBN-139789004175785
- Library of Congress Control Number2009052762
- OCLC Control Number499128614
- Better World Books9789004175785
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- Open LibraryOL24013550M
Classifications
- DDC305.89/4
- LCCDS432.A6 B53 2010
- LCCGR305.7.A73B53 2010
Description
"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 11-hour text changed 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."--Jacket.
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Series Statement
- Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 16/3
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- The sun rises
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