Ancestral voices : oral ritual texts and their social contexts among the Mewahang Rai of East Nepal /

"This study focuses on various genres of ritual speech among the Mewahang Rai, all of which make use of a distinct ritual language. The main objective is to situate the oral ritual texts in their ethnographic context. Combining a textual with a cultural approach, the author discusses the indige...

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Main Author: Gaenszle, Martin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Münster : Piscataway, NJ : Lit ; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [2002]
Series:Performanzen ; Bd. 4.
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