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dc.contributor.editorRoche, Gerald
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-16 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:14:53Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:14:53Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier641857
dc.identifierOCN: 1014194054en_US
dc.identifier.issn2050-7933/2050-7933;2050-7933/2054-362X
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30831
dc.description.abstract" Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and they provide valuable insights into the lives of Mongghul people—their hopes, dreams, and worries. They bear testimony to the impressive plurilingual repertoire commanded by some Mongghul singers: the original texts in Tibetan, Mongghul, and Chinese are here presented in Mongghul, Chinese, and English. The kaleidoscope of stories told in these songs include that of Marshall Qi, a chieftain from the Seven Valleys who travels to Luoyang with his Mongghul army to battle rebels; Laarimbu and Qiimunso, a pair of star-crossed lovers who take revenge from beyond the grave on the families that kept them apart; and the Crop-Planting Song and the Sheep Song, which map the physical and spiritual terrain of the Mongghul people, vividly describing the physical and cosmological world in which they exist. This collection of songs is supported by an Introduction by Gerald Roche that provides an understanding of their traditional context, and shows that these works offer insights into the practices of multilingualism in Tibet. Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet is vital reading for researchers and others working on oral literature, as well as those who study Inner Asia, Tibet, and China’s ethnic minorities. Finally, this book is of interest to linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on small-scale multilingualism and pre-colonial multilingualism. "
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Oral Literature Series
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2G East and Southeast Asian languages::2GD Sino-Tibetan languagesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCQ Poetry anthologies (various poets)en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.othernarrative songs
dc.subject.otherchina’s ethnic minorities
dc.subject.othertibet
dc.subject.otherpre-colonial multilingualism
dc.subject.othermongghul oral literature
dc.subject.othermultilingualism
dc.subject.otherBird
dc.subject.otherGautama Buddha
dc.subject.otherHighland barley
dc.subject.otherHuni
dc.subject.otherKitchen stove
dc.subject.otherSheep
dc.titleLong Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet
dc.title.alternativeTexts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0124
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b
oapen.relation.isbn9781783743834
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.series.number2050-7933/2050-7933
oapen.pages470
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Bird - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird; Gautama Buddha - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha; Highland barley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_barley; Huni - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huni; Kitchen stove - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_stove; Multilingualism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism; Sheep - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep
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