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urn:uuid:b9db4ecc-942b-4446-8062-6fb4501c7159 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b9db4ecc-942b-4446-8062-6fb4501c7159 15 9781800648029 06 10.11647/OBP.0312 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10 01 02 11 World Oral Literature Series 01 01 Shépa The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné 1 A01 Bendi Tso 2 A01 Marnyi Gyatso 3 A01 Naljor Tsering 4 A01 21 0000-0002-2262-0986 Mark Turin 5 A01 Members of the Choné Tibetan Community First edition. 01 chi 01 eng 01 tib 00 804 03 93 AVLT 12 CFF 10 LAN009010 B2 Literature 04 PL3735 B2 Asian Studies 93 CFP 12 HBTD 10 LAN009050 12 2GD 93 FNM B2 Linguistics 10 SOC002010 12 2GDT B2 Anthropology 10 SOC008000 B2 Folklore and Ethnology 12 JFHF 10 SOC011000 12 JFSL 10 LAN023000 12 1FPC 10 MUS015000 12 1FPCT 01 06 03 00 <p>Shépa: ‘explanation’ or ‘elucidation’ in Tibetan.</p><p>A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer style.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> 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 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20231004 2023 06 15 9781800648005 06 15 9781800648012 06 15 9781800648029 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0312.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0312 99 01