"Tribes of Snow" : Animals and Plants in the Nuosu Book of Origins
Abstract/Sommario:
An epic narrative poem known as Hnewu tepyy (Book of origins) holds a central place in the mythic and ritual imagination of the Nuosu people of South west China. Existing both as oral performances and oral-connected written texts, the narrative relates the origins of the sky, earth, geographical features, and life forms -culminating in the origins of the forebears of the Nuosu people. Animals and plants populate the landscape of the narrative world, clustering in the categories of wil ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | "Tribes of Snow" : Animals and Plants in the Nuosu Book of Origins/ Mark Bender |
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IN Per: Asian Ethnology, vol. 67, n. 1 (2008) p. 5-42
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| ID scheda | 62575 |