oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D276-A
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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D276-A |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | Offering things to dead soul | |
| suddhai_01 | ||
| Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal | ||
| Contributor: | Shree Kumar | |
| Arjun Rai | ||
| Contributor (speaker): | Guman Sing Rai | |
| Coverage: | Nepal | |
| Date: | 2006-05-05 | |
| Description: | This session belongs to the cycle of funeral rituals. The shaman performs a ritual for guiding away the soul of the dead. It must also must be performed to find out the proper destination of the deceased's soul. | |
| 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. | ||
| The dead person, Vale, had died at the Sunsari district but his final death ritual performance is performed at his ritual home at the Diblung-8, Khuksithong, Nigalbas, Khotang Nepal, because every ritual should be performed in the ritual home, where there is the suptulung, i.e. hearthstone. The Dowʌ (priest) recites, chants and trembles, as he beats the buluken (bronze bowl) continuously. He guides away the dead person's soul and eventually performs the yari, i.e. a divination to get knowledge about the dead soul. A cock is sacrificed as part of the ritual procedure. | ||
| Puma is the language which is used in this session. | ||
| GSR is the resident of Diplung VDC. He is a Puma shaman and performs Puma rituals in his society. His clan is Limmachit Puma. Mr. Dachhuman Rai is the Kotowala, i.e. the guide of suddhai _01 and own younger brother of late Mr. Guman Sing Rai and known as Ramopa (1938-…) from same clan and village. Mr. Kumar Rai is the son of late Vale, i.e. the deceased person. Mr. Ambar Bahadur Rai is the younger brother of Vale and the household head in ritual context. | ||
| SKR is doing his Master's in Business Administration from Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar and also RA n Puma team. He is very keen to preserve and promote his language and culure. He has written some gazels and poems in his own language. | ||
| He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team. | ||
| GSR is settler of Puma area, Diplung VDC, Nigalbas-7. He is also a shaman. His clan is Limmachit. | ||
| Format: | text/x-shoebox-text | |
| DV | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D276-A | |
| CPDP | ||
| Publisher: | Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | |
| University of Leipzig | ||
| Subject: | Narrative | |
| Ritual/religious text | ||
| Ritual of dead soul | ||
| Puma language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | pum | |
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| 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 | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-D276-A | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-07-18 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Shree Kumar; Arjun Rai; Guman Sing Rai (speaker). 2006-05-05. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_NP iso639_pum | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Nepal | |
| Area: | Asia | |