Keshimon Huala
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Audio
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Authors
Wen Xiangcheng
Abstract
This collection contains audio of interviews from the Sanchuan region, in the south of Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province China. All interviews are with huala, male villagers who regularly incarnate local tutelary deities, on such occasions as healing rituals, and the annual harvest festival. The huala interviewed here are mostly Mangghuer; the collection contains one interview with a Tibetan huala, called lha pa in the local Tibetan dialect.
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The huala said that he became a huala when he went to a sick person’s home to watch a healing ritual, and he was suddenly possessed during the ritual. He also described his experience of being possessed. 法拉说他到了一个得病的家里后突然在众人前跳起了舞以后就成了法拉。 他提及了神附体后的经历。
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Mangghuer, Sanchuan, Huala, Tibetan
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Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
