The tale of the Ni an shamaness: A Manchu folk epic

Nowak, Margaret, & Stephen Durrant

Edité par University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1977

A propos de cet article

First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 182; printed from typescript; fine copy in a clipped dust jacket with a slightlky sunned spine. Issuewd as no. 31 in the publisher's Publications on Asia of the Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies. "This work makes available an original example of native Manchu folk literature, a shaman tale that, while widely known in Northeast Asia, has never before been translated into a Western European language. In addition to the translation of the story itself, an interpretation of the tale is provided that clarifies many features of Manchu shamanism and shamanist belief in general" (publisher's blurb).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The tale of the Ni an shamaness: A Manchu folk epic
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
• Date de parution: 1977
• Édition: Edition originale
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Manchuria
  • Literature
  • Asia