Type de publication | Journal Article | |
Auteur(s) | Delaplace, G. | |
Titre de la revue | Inner Asia | |
Volume | 9 | |
Année | 2007 | |
Pages | 197-214 | |
Résumé | This chapter focuses on two versions of a single story collected from North-westand North-east Mongolia. The story concerns a daughter-in-law’s relationshipwith ‘little humans’ (jijig hün) at her in-laws’ house. Although similar in their thematic content, the two stories differ in their endings. In the example from North-west Mongolia,the daughter-in-law successfully rids her in-laws’ house of a little human allowing them to prosper. In the example from North-east Mongolia, the daughter-in-law mistakenly throws a little human into the fire, causing her natal family to perish. At first sight, this divergence could be seen as reflective of the kind of perspectival difference established between a predominantly Buddhist ontology in Western Mongolia and a predominantly shamanist ontology in Eastern Mongolia. But the stories resist being viewed as allegorical texts by which to extract information concerning received ontological differ-ences. Regardless of East/West differences, lay people across all of Mongolia have varied relationships with aspects of the normally invisible world. We argue that, rather than establish ontological species-specific differentiations, such relations point to shifting scales of different ‘kinds’ of people in Mongolia. | |
URL | http://www.academia.edu/645936/The_little_human_and_the_daughter-in-law_Invisibles_as_seen_through_the_eyes_of_different_kinds_of_people | |
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The Little Human and The Daughter-in-law: Invisibles as Seen Through the Eyes of Different Kinds of People
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