The sun rises
Subtitle: a shaman's chant, ritual exchange, and fertility in the Apatani Valley
By: by Stuart Blackburn.
Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 16/3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9789004175785
Subjects: Apatani (Indic people) -- Rites and ceremonies; Oral tradition -- India -- Apatani Valley; Apatani (Indic people) -- Folklore
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.