Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors
Subtitle: A Zhuang Cosmological Text from Southwest China (Northern Illinois University Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, No. 5)
Publisher: Southeast Asia Publications Center for Southe
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781891134258
Subjects: Zhuang (Chinese people); Religion; Religion - World Religions; Eastern - General; Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu; China; Rites and ceremonies
First sentence: This book presents an annotated translation of two Zhuang ritual texts, traditionally recited during the annual New Year "Sacrifice of a Buffalo to the Ancestors" in the northwestern highlands of Guangxi province in China.