ISBN:
9789004414839
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 264 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten, Notenbeispiele
Series Statement:
Religion in Chinese societies volume 15
Series Statement:
Religion in Chinese societies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Névot, Aurélie Masters of Psalmody (bimo)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Névot, Aurélie, 1975 - Masters of psalmody (bimo)
DDC:
299.5/1
Keywords:
Shamanism
;
Shamanism Rituals
;
Texts
;
History and criticism
;
Animal sacrifice
;
Yi (Chinese people) Rites and ceremonies
;
Ethnology
;
Shilin Yizu Zizhixian (China) Religion
Abstract:
Countercurrent writing : myths and blood lineages in question -- The textual chants of bimo : voicing the written space -- The physicality of bimo books : the manuscript as a psalmodic mask -- The bimo's bookish journey: to walk through chanted lines of writing -- Bimo ritual, nyi : sacrificial transsubstantiality -- Achema : the Yi-Sani apologue for the art of speaking -- Bimo religion as intangible cultural heritage : the process of standardizing writings and chants.
Abstract:
"In Masters of Psalmody (bimo) Aurélie Névot analyses the religious, political and theoretical issues of a scriptural shamanism observed in southwestern China among the Yi-Sani. Her focus is on blood sacrifices and chants based on a secret and labile writing handled only by ritualists called bimo. Through ethnographic data, the author presents the still little known bimo metaphysics and unravels the complexity of the local text-based ritual system in which the continuity of each bimo lineage relies on the transmission of manuscripts whose writing relates to lineage blood. While illuminating the usages of this shamanistic tradition that is characterized by scriptural variability between patrilineages, Aurélie Névot highlights the radical changes it is undergoing by becoming a Chinese state tradition"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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