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The Three Temples Pilgrimage : An Ancient Ritual Festival of Dali, China
by Francesco Cosentino and Francis Co
Overview
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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