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Namyi Collection The 5,000 Namyi speak a Qiangic language, are classified as Tibetan, and mostly live in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China. The audio material presented here includes (1) a creation account, (2) a story of family clan formation, (3) a Namyi hero, (4) a religious specialist, (5) a story of seven daughters' adventures, (6) 'The Puppy and the Boy', (7) a tragedy involving a brother and a sister, (8) a hunting story, (9) a story of how people came to use tobacco, (10) two sisters' adventures with a monster, and (11) a story about a rabbit father-in-law and an orphan. The original materials were collected from Namyi tellers in Zhequ (Chinese: Dashui) Village and Mu'er Village, Lianhe Township, Mianning County. Libu Lakhi (Zla ba bstan 'dzin, Dawa Tenzin, Li Jianfu, Zachary) transcribed the original material into IPA and rerecorded the material, which is presented here. See (Libu Lakhi, Brook Hefright, and Kevin Stuart. 2007. 'The Namuyi: Linguistic and Cultural Features.' Asian Folklore Studies 66: 233-253) for an introduction to the Namyi click please read the PDF available by clicking here. For a transcript of these audio materials, see Libu Lakhi, et. al. 2008. Asian Highland Perspectives (forthcoming).
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