The Time of Red Snowfall: Steering Social and Cosmic Renewal in Southwest China
The Time of Red Snowfall: Steering Social and Cosmic Renewal in Southwest China
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The Time of Red Snowfall: Steering Social and Cosmic Renewal in Southwest China
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Nanzan University
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Asian ethnology, 2023-03, Vol.82 (1), p.141-164
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Each year the Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman group of Southwest China, celebrate their Fire Festival with vibrant displays that evoke the myth-historical blunder of a hero killing a spirit. To atone for this blunder, they compete in arts and sports before spectators, judges, and the sky god, who receives their displays as ritual blandishments and expresses...
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The Time of Red Snowfall: Steering Social and Cosmic Renewal in Southwest China
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1882-6865
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