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The Sun Rises: A Shaman’s Chant, Ritual Exchange and Fertility in the Apatani Valley: 16/3 (Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas, 16/3) - Tapa dura

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Blackburn, Stuart

 
9789004175785: The Sun Rises: A Shaman’s Chant, Ritual Exchange and Fertility in the Apatani Valley: 16/3 (Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas, 16/3)
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ISBN 10: 9004175784 ISBN 13: 9789004175785
Editorial: Brill, 2010

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Stuart Blackburn, Ph.D. (1980) in Folklore and South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has published several books on oral tradition and culture in India, including (with Michael Aram Tarr) Through the Eye of Time: Photographs of Arunachal Pradesh, 1859-2006 (Brill, 2008) and Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley (Brill, 2009).

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Editorial
Brill
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9004175784
ISBN 13 
9789004175785
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Número de páginas
424
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