Transforming history and myth

On the mutuality and separation of shared narratives in Eastern Tibet

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11618467
AutoresGillian G Tan (0000-0002-0492-7474, Alfred Deakin Research Institute Deakin University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas193-212
Fecha de publicación2013-06-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/taja.12038
OpenAlexW2048860121
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas35

Questioning the distinction between ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ societies, and an implied separation between myth and history, anthropologists have increasingly urged for an understanding of both myth and history as equally valid modes of shared social consciousness. This article takes up this point of view by referring to a written history of Lhagang, a town in Eastern Tibet; a history that appears to have the transformative content and oral circulation of myth. Using Lévi‐Strauss’ structural analysis of myth and Santos‐Granero's concept of topograms to demonstrate the mythemes that derive from the written history and circulate among Lhagang Tibetans, the article argues that, within the political and cultural context of Lhagang, myth and history shift in and out of indigenous categories even while being categorically distinct

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