Date: 08-Sep-2008 From: Vicky Chen <vchengate.sinica.edu.tw> Subject: Ritual Texts of the Last Traditional Practitioners of Nanwang Puyuma: Cauquelin E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Ritual Texts of the Last Traditional Practitioners of Nanwang Puyuma
Series Title: Language and Linguistics Monograph Series A23
Published: 2008
Publisher: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/english/
Since 1983, Josiane Cauquelin has been engaged in an ethnographic study of Puyuma society and cultural traditions. This research led her to investigate their religious practices in greater depth and allowed her to record ritual texts from both male and female officiants. She rapidly came to understand, however, that to proceed with shamanistic studies she had to analyze the ritual language. Her first study was presented in 1993, at the third seminar of the International Society for Shamanic Research in Budapest and was published in 1995. This book represents a first attempt at providing a comprehensive ethnolinguistic study of invocations in Nanwang Puyuma.
Linguistic Field(s):
Anthropological Linguistics
Discourse Analysis