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- Book Title
- The Rulings of the Night
- Publication Name
- Rulings of the Night : an Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
- Title
- The Rulings of the Night
- Subtitle
- Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0299144941
- EAN
- 9780299144944
- ISBN
- 9780299144944
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Social Sciences
- Release Date
- 31/05/1995
- Release Year
- 1995
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Type
- Textbook
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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. Maskarinec analyzes several complete repertoires of the texts that the shamans use to diagnose and treat afflictions that trouble their clients. Through these texts, they intervene to manipulate and change the world, replacing its unbalanced, inexpressible chaos with orderly, balanced, grammatical, and eloquently expressible states. They negotiate the relations between language, action, and social realities, providing a well-constructed and thoroughly consistent intentional universe--and only in that universe can all shaman actions and beliefs be fully comprehended.
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299144941
ISBN-13
9780299144944
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94160
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Rulings of the Night : an Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl2033.5.S52m37 1995
Reviews
" The Rulings of the Night offers something new to the anthropology of language and ritual. Built on impeccably careful fieldwork, and beautiful at times in its transparency, the book gets back to the words themselves in crafting an understanding of the deadly important play between shamanic prayers and social reality in the Nepal Himalayas. The author's novel focus on the pragmatics of everyday speech is sure to provoke argument (and a much needed one, at that), but, like the Nepali shaman's mythic songs, the book is also sure to intrigue, captivate, and transform."--Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, "Based on exceptionally solid research with fifteen shamans of the Nepalese Himalaya, this innovative book uses meticulously edited texts to reveal the shamanic world and the shaman's expected life course within it. A wide variety of readers in anthropology, religion, folklore, and linguistics will find how language has the power to maintain a seamless universe closely bonding the everyday world and the world of spirits."-John T. Hitchcock, University of Wisconsin, " The Rulings of the Night offers something new to the anthropology of language and ritual. Built on impeccably careful fieldwork, and beautiful at times in its transparency, the book gets back to the words themselves in crafting an understanding of the deadly important play between shamanic prayers and social reality in the Nepal Himalayas. The author's novel focus on the pragmatics of everyday speech is sure to provoke argument (and a much needed one, at that), but, like the Nepali shaman's mythic songs, the book is also sure to intrigue, captivate, and transform."-Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, "Based on exceptionally solid research with fifteen shamans of the Nepalese Himalaya, this innovative book uses meticulously edited texts to reveal the shamanic world and the shaman's expected life course within it. A wide variety of readers in anthropology, religion, folklore, and linguistics will find how language has the power to maintain a seamless universe closely bonding the everyday world and the world of spirits."--John T. Hitchcock, University of Wisconsin
Copyright Date
1995
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Shamanism, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Lccn
94-023024
Dewey Decimal
299/.1495
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
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