OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-3435-C

Metadata
Title:		A Puma ritual festival
		budha_puja_01
		Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:		Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):		Cakra Bahadur Rai
Coverage:		Nepal
Date:		2004-11-26
Description:		It was recorded at Cisapani-7,Pathivara.Puma shamans do this ritual once in a year .In this session, a shaman is telling/performing the Puma ritual. He has called Paruhang and Sumnima.
		The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undocumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern hilly part of the country.
		In this text, Puma shaman Mr Cakra Bahadur Rai is performing the ritual. Paruhang is respected as the supreme god.In this ritual, shamans demand the power with their superior god, Paruhang.
		The Puma mundhum language is frequently used in this task.In some situations, Bantawa language is used.
		Mr Cakra Rai is one of the young Puma who is also the shaman and he is very interested person in the Puma language and culture.
		Mr Cakra Bahadur Rai is one of the young energetic person who is also a Puma shaman.
		He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:		text/x-shoebox-text
		DV
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-3435-C
		CPDP
Publisher:		Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
		University of Leipzig
Subject:		Ritual texts; Religious texts
		Invocation
		Budhahang worshiping
		Bantawa language
		Puma language
Subject (ISO639):		bap
		pum
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-3435-C
DateStamp:		2017-07-18
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Cakra Bahadur Rai (speaker); Arjun Rai. 2004-11-26. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms:		area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_pum
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Nepal
Area:		Asia