A bsang 'Incense' Offering
Type
Video
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Authors
G.yu lha
Abstract
The fifty one audio and nine video files in this collection include: villages’ life stories, circle-dancing songs and performance, local history, folk tales, and interviews from Siyuewu Village, Puxi Township, Rangtang County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.
Description
Male villagers make a bsang 'incense' offering to the local mountain deity before the circle dance begins.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Lavrung, Siyuewu, Amdo Tibetan, Village history, Folk tales
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Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
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World Oral Literature Project