The Three Temples Pilgrimage: An Ancient Ritual Festival of Dali, China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781466492233)

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.

Author: Francesco Cosentino,Francis Co
ISBN-10: 1466492236
ISBN-13: 9781466492233
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2011
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.17d