Masters of psalmody (bimo): scriptural shamanism in Southwestern China
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...
| Published in: | Religion in Chinese societies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Religion in Chinese societies (volume 15)
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| Series/Journal: | Religion in Chinese societies
volume 15 |
| Further subjects: | B
Yi (Chinese people)
Rites and ceremonies
B Animal sacrifice (China, Southwest) B Shamanism Rituals Texts History and criticism B Shamanism (China, Southwest) B Ethnology (China) (Shilin Yizu Zizhixian) B Shilin Yizu Zizhixian (China) Religion |
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| Summary: | 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. "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004414835 |