Texts from the Winter Feasts of the Kalasha of Birir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9536665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Augusto Cacopardo (corresponding author), Augusto S Cacopardo |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6446 • E-ISSN: 1588-2667 |
| Publisher | University of Oslo Library (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.5617/ao.5345 |
| OpenAlex | W4252717209 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The author presents a collection of texts recorded in 2006–07 during the winter ritual cycle of the Kalasha of the Birir valley – in NorthWest Pakistan – who still practice an archaic form of polytheism with pre-Vedic roots. The fulcrum of the cycle is the Chaumos Winter Solstice Festival, but a number of other festivities follow it at intervals forming a sequence almost two months long, lasting until February. The selection includes texts of songs, chants or prayers from each of these festivities. To allow the reader to relate them to the context in which they were recorded, the texts are accompanied by explanatory ethnographic notes. An introduction sketches the broader scene in which the research was carried out. The texts are in the Birir dialect of Kalashamon, the language of the Kalasha, a North-West-Indo-Aryan, or Dardic, language
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sequence (biology · Solstice · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |