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Exorcism: a custom of the Black Lolo
Pien-cheng Kung-lun [Frontier Affairs] • 3 (9) • Published In 1944 • Pages: 27-30 [HRAF ms.: i, 12]
By: Ma, Hsüeh-liang, Tsao, Lien-en.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author has written an account of an exorcizing ceremony that he personally observed at Wan-teh village, Mou-lien district, in the Wu-ting area (the town of Wu-ting is approximately 35 miles northwest of Kunming), Yünan. His coverage of the ceremony is fairly extensive, including sacrifice, the legendary basis of the ceremony, and the ceremonial objects used. The importance of the Pai-mao (native religious practitioner) is clearly, though inferentially, brought out. Other topics mentioned in this source are omens and divination; attitudes toward spirits; spirit theory of disease; and attitudes towards government officials. The Lolo villagers described in this article are Black Lolo (Heh-i).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magical and mental therapy
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Arthur Fields ; 1956 ; Ian Skoggard ; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1943
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1943
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wuding County, Yunnan Province, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Hsueh-liang Ma ; translated by Lien-en Tsao
- Translation of: Heh-i feng-su chih i-ch'u
- The original Chinese text is not available in the HRAF Collection.
- Translated from the Chinese for the Human Relations Area Files by Lien-en Tsao
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yi (Chinese people)/Ethnology--China--Yunnan/Religion--China--Yunnan