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Title:Puma Phagu ritual
phagu_ritual
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Contributor (author):Judith Pettigrew
Martin Gaenszle
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2008-05-18
Description:In this session a description of the Phagu ritual is given. The origin of Phagu, the purpose of performing this ritual, way and the role of performing this ritual is also outlined.
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.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch
In this session, the ritual of Phagu which is one of the most important ritual is described. The role of a ngapong, who is the ritual expert in charge of the ritual is described, as well as the stages of the ritual itself.
English, Nepali and Puma languages are used in this session.
Dr JP is the main researcher of Puma Chintang Documentation Project. AR is the resident of Dhankuta district. He is a research assistant of Chintang and Puma documentation Project.
Dr Judith Pettigrew is an anthropologist and a principal researcher on the Chintang and Puma Documentation Proect, University of Leipzig.
Dr. Gaenszle is the researcher in charge of ethnography
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:application/pdf
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0010-9AF5-F
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Study
Description
English language
Puma language
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Subject (ISO639):eng
pum
nep

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Citation: Judith Pettigrew; Martin Gaenszle. 2008-05-18. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia area_Europe country_GB country_NP iso639_eng iso639_nep iso639_pum

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