Divination and the scapular theory of writing in north Yunnan: graph, verse, page
This essay explores the Nasu or Né variety of the “Yi” writing system, used in many indigenous communities in southwest China. I argue that Né texts participate in a distinctive form of life for humans, ancestors, and spirits. At the levels of graph, verse, and page, textual practice traverses meani...
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
2022
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | This essay explores the Nasu or Né variety of the “Yi” writing system, used in many indigenous communities in southwest China. I argue that Né texts participate in a distinctive form of life for humans, ancestors, and spirits. At the levels of graph, verse, and page, textual practice traverses meaning and image to amplify ritual practices that manage relations between humans and non-humans. This analysis works against the “modernist” sense that Né texts can be understood, severed from the context of their creation, iteration, and recitation, as “literature”. |
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