China's Namuyi Tibetans: Life, Language, and Folklore Volume Two

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This remarkable book is the product of a fruitful collaboration among a native speaker of the Namuyi language, Tibetan and Chinese consultants, and a dedicated group of Westerners resident in China. It affords the reader an intimate glimpse into traditional Namuyi, now well on its way to disappearing along with hundreds of similar minority cultures in the world. The authors of this book are to be congratulated for putting Namuyi language and culture 'on the map' in such a clear and respectful fashion. James A Matisoff

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Dashui Village

大水村
dà shǔi cún

Namuyi Wedding Songs

Here we present three endangered wedding songs that were recorded in Mianning County. Wedding songs praise and describe the wedding activities in detail; such materials can be useful for anthropological analysis. Luodu Aga (Jared) recorded these songs in Lianhe Township, Mianning County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. They are sung in the Qiangic Namuyi language.

Calling Back the Lost Namuyi Tibetan Soul

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A  Namuyi person falls accidentally and is panicked. The soul leaves the body and the person becomes lethargic. It is nearly always the patient's mother who calls the soul back, if she knows the correct chant. Five thousand Namuyi Tibetans live mostly in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China with Han and Nuosu (Yi). The ritual is commonly done for children less than ten years of age, though anyone may lose their soul. The chant is presented along with a brief discussion of Namuyi cosmology and beliefs concerning the soul.

Namuyi Tibetan Songs, Engagement Chants, and Flute Music

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The present study is a straightforward, pragmatic attempt to document the particulars of na53 mʑi53 song and musical traditions comprising the local 'performance-scape'. The primary researcher, Libu Lakhi, is a native of the community who was trained in a specialized mode of auto-ethnography developed by Charles Kevin Stuart and Gerald Roche at Qinghai Normal University 青海师范大学,Xining City 西宁市, Qinghai Province 青海省. Drawing on ethnomusicology, socio-linguistics, and the 'performance' school of folkloristics, the model is intended to enable local peoples to document and display their own traditions in a form available to scholars and interested persons on a global scale. This efficient system can be effectively utilized in the sort of small-scale formats familiar to folklorists and A The Great Cold Mountains.•5•ethnomusicologists. In spirit, the system of training is not dissimilar to the methods employed in China since the May Fourth Movement era where college students were trained to collect local song and storytexts, methods revived and recalibrated during government-sponsored folklore collecting activities. The present study, however, not only stresses the collection of song and chant texts, but contextualizes them by providing detailed descriptions of the performers and their lives, multi-linear representations of the song lyrics and musical notation, and details of the performance process.

China's Namuyi Tibetans: Life, Language, and Folklore Volume One

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This remarkable book is the product of a fruitful collaboration among a native speaker of na53mʑi53 kha11 tho11, Tibetan and Chinese consultants, and a dedicated group of Westerners residentin China. It affords the reader an intimate glimpse into traditional na53 mʑi53 life, now well on itsway to disappearing along with hundreds of similar minority cultures in the world.This remarkable book is the product of a fruitful collaboration among a native speaker of the Namuyi language, Tibetan and Chinese consultants, and a dedicated group of Westerners resident in China. It affords the reader an intimate glimpse into traditional Namuyi, now well on its way to disappearing along with hundreds of similar minority cultures in the world. The authors of this book are to be congratulated for putting Namuyi language and culture 'on the map' in such a clear and respectful fashion. James A Matisoff
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China's Namuyi Tibetans: Life, Language, and Folklore Volume Two

TitleChina's Namuyi Tibetans: Life, Language, and Folklore Volume Two
Publication TypeJournal Article
JournalAsian Highlands Perspectives
Volume2B
ISSN1835-7741
Other NumbersLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2008944256
Citation KeyplaculAHP
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