Alama Ritual
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| Description: | Alama is an annual ritual observed on the fourteenth day of the eleventh lunar month of the Tibetan Calendar by children and youths to expel illness and other evil at the end of the lunar year and to have fun. |
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| Created: | 2016-01-13 19:53 | ||
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| Collection: | Digital Himalaya Films & Video | ||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | Sonam Wogyal | ||
| Language: | tib (Tibetan) | ||
| Distribution: |
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| Keywords: | anthropology; Tibet; Ritual; China; | ||
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| Explicit content: | No | ||
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 | ||
| Screencast: | No | ||
| Bumper: | UCS Default | ||
| Trailer: | UCS Default | ||
| Abstract: | The Alama (Ala ma) Ritual is held jointly by Jyongra (Gyang ra) and Gardo (Dga 'mdo) villages, Pizza ('phel tsha) Township, Narong (Nyag rong) County, Ganze (Dkar mdzes) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. It is an annual ritual observed on the fourteenth day of the eleventh lunar month of the Tibetan Calendar by children and youths to expel illness and other evil at the end of the lunar year and to have fun. At least one person from each family should participate in the ritual unless a family experienced a death in the current year, in which case no one from that family participates. |
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