The sun rises : a shaman's chant, ritual exchange and fertility in the Apatani Valley / / by Stuart Blackburn.

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 wit...

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Superior document:Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 16/3
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (419 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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