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題名 Mogong and chieftaincy in western Guangxi and Southeast Asia 作者 Holm, David
賀大衛貢獻者 民族學系 日期 2017 上傳時間 8-May-2017 14:31:10 (UTC+8) 摘要 This article is devoted to establishing, by means of textual and comparative evidence, a link between the religious practitioners called mogong (Zh. bouxmo) and chiefly houses. The mogong are male priests who recite texts in the ‘local’ language, in this case Zhuang or Bouyei. They are also found among other Tai peoples, including the Dai in Yunnan, the Tày and Nùng in Vietnam, and also among other ethnic groups in mainland Southeast Asia. Theirs is a very ancient tradition, dating back possibly 2000 years. Most of the studies on mogong in the PRC have treated the mogong either as an instance of ‘primitive religion’ or as ‘folk beliefs’, and some scholars have declared that the mogong had no connection with politics or government. My argument, based on new evidence from a survey of Zhuang vernacular texts, is that the Zhuang mogong only became village-level vernacular priests after the disbandment of the native chieftaincies, starting in the early eighteenth century, and that before that they were attached directly to chiefly lineages, as they still were in Yunnan and in Southeast Asia until the 1940s. The mogong were responsible for the most important triennial sacrifices to the guardian spirits of the domain. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 關聯 Asian Ethnicity, 18(2), 173-189 資料類型 article DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2016.1224643 dc.contributor 民族學系 dc.creator (作者) Holm, David dc.creator (作者) 賀大衛 zh_TW dc.date (日期) 2017 dc.date.accessioned 8-May-2017 14:31:10 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 8-May-2017 14:31:10 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 8-May-2017 14:31:10 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/109324 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) This article is devoted to establishing, by means of textual and comparative evidence, a link between the religious practitioners called mogong (Zh. bouxmo) and chiefly houses. The mogong are male priests who recite texts in the ‘local’ language, in this case Zhuang or Bouyei. They are also found among other Tai peoples, including the Dai in Yunnan, the Tày and Nùng in Vietnam, and also among other ethnic groups in mainland Southeast Asia. Theirs is a very ancient tradition, dating back possibly 2000 years. Most of the studies on mogong in the PRC have treated the mogong either as an instance of ‘primitive religion’ or as ‘folk beliefs’, and some scholars have declared that the mogong had no connection with politics or government. My argument, based on new evidence from a survey of Zhuang vernacular texts, is that the Zhuang mogong only became village-level vernacular priests after the disbandment of the native chieftaincies, starting in the early eighteenth century, and that before that they were attached directly to chiefly lineages, as they still were in Yunnan and in Southeast Asia until the 1940s. The mogong were responsible for the most important triennial sacrifices to the guardian spirits of the domain. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. dc.format.extent 213 bytes - dc.format.mimetype text/html - dc.relation (關聯) Asian Ethnicity, 18(2), 173-189 dc.title (題名) Mogong and chieftaincy in western Guangxi and Southeast Asia dc.type (資料類型) article dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1080/14631369.2016.1224643 dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2016.1224643
