May All Good Things Gather Here: Life, Religion and Marriage in a Mi nyag Tibetan Village
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Bkra shis bzang po
Description
This work documents marriage customs and related oral traditions in Bang smad Village, Bang smad Township, Nyag rong County, Dkar mdzes Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Villagers speak the poorly documented Mi nyag language. This study provides novel linguistic and ethnographic data, including a Mi nyag-English word list, maps showing the distribution of Mi nyag-speaking communities, and numerous full-color photographs of village life and wedding festivities. Of special interest are the transcribed wedding speeches locally given in Mi nyag and Tibetan.
Title
May All Good Things Gather Here: Life, Religion and Marriage in a Mi nyag Tibetan Village
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Bang smad, Nyag rong, Weddings, Mi nyag, Dkar mdzes, Folk Song, Wedding Speeches, Tibetan, Nyag skad
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Asian Highlands Perspectives
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ISBN
1925-6329
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