It is impossible to discuss what shamans are and what they do, contends Gregory G. Maskarinec, without knowing what shamans say. When Maskarinec took an interest in shaman rituals on his first visit to Nepal, he was told by many Nepalis and Westerners that the shamans he had encountered in the Himalayan foothills of western Nepal engaged in "meaningless mumblings." But in the course of several years of fieldwork he learned from the shamans that both their long, publicly chanted rituals and their whispered, secretive incantations are oral texts meticulously memorized through years of...
It is impossible to discuss what shamans are and what they do, contends Gregory G. Maskarinec, without knowing what shamans say. When Maskarinec to...
This work is a bilingual (Nepali an English) edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts collected over the past 20 years in Jajarkot district, western Nepal. Throughout that area, shamans continue to fulfil important therapeutic roles, diagnosis problems, treating afflictions, and restoring order and balance to the lives of their clients and their communities. Each of these efforts incorporate extensive, meticulously memorized oral texts, materials that not only clarify symptoms and causes but also detail the proper ways to conduct rituals. These texts preserve the...
This work is a bilingual (Nepali an English) edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts collected over the past 20 years in...
