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The Founding of a Tibetan Village: The Popular Transformation of History
This article considers the literary and oral preservation of history and how villagers stress different aspects of the same story in accordance with their own interests. (Mark Turin 2004-06-11)
The Gurung Priest as Bard
This work compares recited narratives (pe) that priests learn from their teachers. (Mark Turin 2004-06-11)
The Wild Boar and the Plough: Origin Stories of the Northern Magar
The piece presents three origin stories of the Northern Magar in the Rukum district of NW Central Nepal all of which rotate around the origin of the first ancestors. (Mark Turin 2004-06-11)
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