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The Nuosu Book of Origins A Creation Epic from Southwest China / translated by Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu from a transcription by Jjivot Zopqu.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies on ethnic groups in China
- Language:
- English
- Sino-Tibetan (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Yi (Chinese people).
- Mythology, Chinese.
- Folk poetry, Yi.
- Creation--Mythology.
- Creation.
- RELIGION / Comparative Religion.
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
- Creation--Mythology--China, Southwest.
- Yi (Chinese people)--Folklore.
- Folk poetry, Yi--China, Southwest--Translations into English.
- China, Southwest.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource xcv, 173 pages.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Washington Press 2019
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Bender Mark : Mark Bender is professor of Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition (University of Illinois Press, 2003); translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China (Hackett, 2007); cotranslator of Hmong Oral Epics (Guizhou Nationalities Press, 2012); and coeditor of Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Culture (Columbia University Press, 2011).Wuwu Aku : Aku Wuwu is professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. The best-known poet among the Nuosu, his work has been published in journals and edited volumes such as Manoa, Ratapallax, Cha, and Basalt. His collection of Nuosu- and Chinese-language poems, Tiger Traces, was published in a trilingual edition (Foreign Language Publications, Ohio State University, 2006).Zopqu Jjivot : Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.Harrell Stevan : Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.Mark Bender is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China. Aku Wuwu is a well-known poet and professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.
- Summary:
- "The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare example in English of indigenous ethnic literature from China. Transmitted in oral and written forms for centuries among the Nuosu, The Book of Origins is performed by bimo priests and other tradition-bearers. Poetic in form, the narrative provides insights into how a clan- and caste-based society organizes itself, dictates ethics, relates to other ethnic groups, and adapts to a harsh environment. A comprehensive introduction to the translation describes the land and people, summarizes the work's themes, and discusses the significance of The Book of Origins for the understanding of folk epics, ethnoecology, and ethnic relations"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Genealogy of sky = Momu cy
- Genealogy of earth = Mudde cy
- Transformation of sky and earth = Momu zzyqo cy
- Genealogy of lightning = Murzyr cy
- Separation of sky and earth = Muvu mudie po
- Great bimo = Awo shubu
- Genealogy of spirit monkey = Anyu ddussy cy
- Zhyge alu = Zhyge alu
- Shooting down suns and moons = Gge nbie hle nbie
- Calling out single sun and single moon = Gge di hle di gu
- Twelve branches of snow = Vonre sse cinyi
- Genealogy of Shyly Wote = Shyly wote ssy
- Ozzu (Tibetan) lineages = Ozzu cy
- Ozzu (Tibetan) migrations = Ozzu muche
- Hxiemga (Han) people's lineage = Hxiemga cy
- Hxiemga (Han) people's migrations = Hxiemga muche
- Foreigner's lineage = Yiery cy
- Migrations of foreigners = Yiery muche
- Nuosu lineages = Nuosu cy
- Emperor vomu and ni and vi genealogies = Vomu ni vi cy
- Genealogy of Ahuo = Ahuo cy
- Migration of ahuo = Ahuo muche
- Genealogy of Nzy clan = Nzyzzur pu
- Highpoints of migrations of the Ggu Ho = Gguho cy bo
- Migrations of Qonie = Qonie cy bo
- Changes in Hxuo villages = Hxuoqo hxeqo
- Genealogy of Gguho = Gguho cy
- Migrations of nine sons of Gguho Durzhy Ddiwo = Kurdie Gguho Durzhy Ddiwo Wo Sse Ggu cy
- Genealogy of Qoni = Qoni cy.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Nuosu.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-295-74570-3
- OCLC:
- 1086523172
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