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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
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The LORD's Service
(Hardcover)
Robert D Macina; Foreword by John W Kleinig
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In Masters of Psalmody (bimo) Aurelie Nevot analyses the religious,
political and theoretical issues of a scriptural shamanism observed
in southwestern China among the Yi-Sani. Her focus is on blood
sacrifices and chants based on a secret and labile writing handled
only by ritualists called bimo. Through ethnographic data, the
author presents the still little known bimo metaphysics and
unravels the complexity of the local text-based ritual system in
which the continuity of each bimo lineage relies on the
transmission of manuscripts whose writing relates to lineage blood.
While illuminating the usages of this shamanistic tradition that is
characterized by scriptural variability between patrilineages,
Aurelie Nevot highlights the radical changes it is undergoing by
becoming a Chinese state tradition.
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