Shan Calendrical Systems: The Everyday Use of Esoteric Knowledge
作者:
NICOLA TANNENBAUM,
期刊:
Mankind
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 14-25
ISSN:0025-2328
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1988.tb01293.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
In this paper I examine the Shan calendrical system as an aspect of exoteric knowledge. To do this I first place the communities I lived in and the experts I consulted in the context of Shan communities and Shan experts. Next I provide a brief account of the Shan calendrical system as I learned it from local experts. I then discuss what everyday people know about the system and age and gender variation in the extent of knowledge. In order to understand this variation. I briefly describe Shan conception of knowledge and power and the place of Buddhism in this system. I go on to explore how one acquires expert status, how experts use calendrical knowledge, and why people consult experts.
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