item Item : The Chant of the Tree of Life _01

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Title
The Chant of the Tree of Life
Original title / translation
suwā kheti
Collector
Sales, Anne de
Collection
"Ramma the Husband, Suwa the Wife : a Chant of Consecration of a Kham-Magar Shaman"
Recording date
Nov. 1, 1982 - Nov. 30, 1982
Access type
full

Geographic and cultural informations

Location
Népal
Location details
Lukum village (Kankri VDC), Rukum district
Cultural area
Himalaya
Language
Kham-Magar
Language (ISO norm)
Western Parbate Kham
Population / social group
Magar
Ethnographic context
This ritual chant was sung in the course of a pumsine, a shorter version of the consecration of a new shaman called bosine (see attached article)
Keywords
Chamanisme, Rituel

Musical informations

Vernacular style
Rituel
Generic style
Rituel
Author / compositor
Cinte Jhankri and Saha Jhankri
Number Composition Vernacular name Interprets
Voix chantée : solo alterné chœur mixte
Tambour sur cadre à 1 membrane

Archiving data

Code
CNRSMH_E_2016_018_001_01
Original code
ASA_cas_027_B.wav
Item number
_01
Remarks
Last modification
July 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m.

Technical data

Media type
Audio
Item size
132.1 MB