Publications

Publication details [#18350]

Maskarinec, Gregory G. 1995. The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. University of Wisconsin Press. xi + 276 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | ethnography | philosophical anthropology | speech act

Language as a subject

Nepalese, Oral, Shaman

Person as a subject

Garfinkel, H. | Searle, J.R. | Wittgenstein, L.

Annotation

This book introduces us to a specific body of orally performed literature, i.e. shamanic texts from Jajarkot and Rukum districts in Western Nepal, raising both ethnographic and philological questions and presenting the author's own blend of speech act theory and phenomenology.

Reviewed by

Leavitt, John. 1998. Review of $The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts.