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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
Language as a subject
Person as a subject

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.

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