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The Three Temples Pilgrimage : An Ancient Ritual Festival of Dali, China

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The "Three Temples Pilgrimage" of Dali, in Chinese known as "Rao San Ling", is a festival of the Bai ethnic people who celebrate, in a ritual way, their unique traditions as a distinctive national group.Another significant if less recognized feature of this ceremony is its function as a fertility rite, preserving the remains among the rural Bai of a pre-modern set of kinship relations. These relations are characterized by a limited and ritualized recourse to practices of sexual promiscuity.The book contains a detailed narration of the events, based on field research, illustrated by 90 original color pictures.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781466492233
  • ISBN-10: 1466492236
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: November 2011
  • Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.17 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
  • Page Count: 64

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