Warming Your Hands with Moonlight: Lavrung Tibetan Oral Traditions and Culture
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Book
Change log
Authors
G.yu lha
Description
Lavrung is a little studied Qiangic language spoken by a small group of Tibetans in Rangtang County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. This work provides the first monographic introduction to Lavrung Tibetans and their language and culture, focusing on the use of trilingual (Lavrung, Chinese, and Tibetan) figurative speech in villagers' everyday discourse. Background on local oral traditions, including folktales, riddles, work songs, and secret curative chants, is also provided. A Lavrung-English word list, fifty-six full-color photographs, and several maps showing the location and distribution of Lavrung-speaking communities are also included.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Lavrung, Siyuewu, Amdo Tibetan, Village history, Folk tales
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