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The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts

The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts

Maskarinec, Gregory G.

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Religion General AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0299144941
ISBN13: 9780299144944
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Apr 15 1995
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It is impossible to discuss what shamans are and what they do, contends Gregory G. Maskarinec, without knowing what shamans say. When Maskarinec took an interest in shaman rituals on his first visit to Nepal, he was told by many Nepalis and Westerners that the shamans he had encountered in the Himalayan foothills of western Nepal engaged in meaningless mumblings. But in the course of several years of fieldwork he learned from the shamans that both their long, publicly chanted rituals and their whispered, secretive incantations are oral texts meticulously memorized through years of training. In The Rulings of the Night, he shows how the shamans, during their dramatic night-long performances, create the worlds of words in which shamans exist.

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