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urn:uuid:b9db4ecc-942b-4446-8062-6fb4501c7159 03 15 9781800648029 00 EB E107 10 10 02 2054362X 01 02 World Oral Literature Series 01 01 Shépa The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné 1 A01 Bendi Tso Bendi Tso is a sociocultural anthropologist working on borderlands, ethnicity, Indigeneity, and the documentation of oral traditions in China. She is currently working on a book project that examines the negotiation of an essentialized Tibetanness among disparate Tibetan subgroups on the Sino-Tibetan borderland characterized by ambiguity and transition. Bendi Tso received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia (2023) and is an incoming postdoctoral fellow in the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University (2024). 2 A01 Marnyi Gyatso Marnyi Gyatso is a historian of empires and frontiers in East Asia. He is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Council on East Asian Studies of Yale University. His research focuses on the interaction and exchange between China and Inner Asia from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. He is currently working on a book project that examines China’s transition from empire to nation-state in Inner Asia between 1862 and 1962. He is also editing a book that explores how different ethnic groups along the rivers of the eastern Tibetan Plateau have adapted to, negotiated with, transformed, and interpreted their natural surroundings. 3 A01 Naljor Tsering Naljor Tsering is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnology at Southwest Minzu University and in Tibetan History and Philology at École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL. He is also a member of the Center for Research on East Asian Civilizations. His research interests include Tibetan Indigenous beliefs, ritual practices, early Bon treasure literature, and Tibetan oral tradition. He is currently participating in the project entitled “Protecting the Kingdom with Tibetan Manuscripts: Codicological and Historical Analysis of the Royal Drangsong Collection from Mustang, Nepal.” 4 A01 Mark Turin Mark Turin is an anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio presenter, and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Mark Turin writes and teaches on language reclamation, revitalization, documentation and conservation; language mapping, policies, politics and language rights; orality, archives, digital tools and technology. Indigenous methodologies and decolonial practice inform and shape his teaching and research. He is the author or co-author of four books, three travel guides, the editor of twelve volumes, and he edits the World Oral Literature Series with Open Book Publishers. 5 A01 Members of the Choné Tibetan Community 01 chi 01 eng 01 tib 00 804 03 12 CFF 10 LAN009010 23 Literature 23 Oral poetry 04 PL3735 23 Asian Studies 23 community-led edition 12 HBTD 10 LAN009050 12 2GD 23 linguistics 23 Linguistics 10 SOC002010 12 2GDT 23 Anthropology 10 SOC008000 23 Tibetan oral literature 23 Choné 23 Folklore and Ethnology 12 JFHF 10 SOC011000 23 anthropology 12 JFSL 10 LAN023000 12 1FPC 10 MUS015000 12 1FPCT 01 06 03 00 Shépa: ‘explanation’ or ‘elucidation’ in Tibetan.A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer style.This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format — in Tibetan, Chinese and English — the book reflects a sustained collaboration with and between members of the local community, including narrators, monks, and scholars, calling attention to the diversity inherent in all oral traditions, and the mutability of Shépa in particular.From creation myths to Bon and Buddhist cosmologies and even wedding songs, Shépa engages with and draws on elements of religious traditions, historical legacies and deep-seated cultural memories within Choné and Tibet, revealing the multi-layered conceptualization of the Tibetan physical world and the resilience of Tibetan communities within it. This vital and unique collection, part of the World Oral Literature Series, situates Shépa in its ethnographic context, offering insights into the preservation and revitalization of intangible cultural heritage in the context of cultural Tibet, Indigenous studies and beyond.Scholars and students in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, ethnic and minority relations, critical Indigenous studies, Tibetan studies, Himalayan studies, Asian studies and the broader study of China will find much to reward them in this book, as will all readers interested in the documentation and preservation of endangered oral traditions, intangible cultural heritage, performance and textuality, and Tibetan literature and religions. 04 00 Acknowledgements / ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེད་ཞུ། / 致谢 Preface / འགོ་བརྗོད། / 序言 Introduction / སྔོན་གླེང་གི་གཏམ། / 导论 Khyung / ཁྱུང་། / 鹏 Rübel / རུས་སྦལ། / 龟说 Jikten Chakluk / འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆགས་གླུ། / 成世说 Chémar / ཕྱེ་མར། / 切玛 Da / མདའ། / 箭 Lönpo Garchen / བློན་པོ་མགར་ཆེན། / 大臣噶尔东赞 Zhanglu and Tsalu / ཞང་གླུ་དང་ཚ་གླུ། / 送亲辞和迎亲辞 Illustrations / དཔེ་རིས། / 图片 References / དཔྱད་གཞི་ཡིག་ཆ། / 参考文献 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20231004 02 WORLD 06 15 9781800648005 06 15 9781800648012 06 15 9781800648029 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01