Foreword
Acknowledgements
Illustrations and Tables
Notes to the Reader
Introduction
1 Countercurrent Writing: Myths and Blood Lineages in Question
Introduction: Yi-centrism versus Han-centrism
1A Direction of Writing Contrary to Chinese Writing
2Writing as a Mirrored Avatar and/or as an Expression of a Distinction of Identity?
3"The Language of the Eyes"
4Apparent Anarchy, Lineage Lability
Conclusion: a Lineage Shamanistic Tradition
2 The Textual Chants of Bimo: Voicing the Written Space
Introduction: Graphical Melodies
1To Meow, to Screech like a Falcon, to Quack like a Wild Duck, to Utter the Chant of the Snake/Dead
2To Write Then to Psalmodize: Becoming Bimo
3Invisible Characters, Voice in Completion, Subtle Speech
4Writing as a Psalmodic Chimera
5The Written Reflexivity of Bimo Speech
Conclusion: the Acoustic Life of Bimo Writing
3 The Physicality of Bimo Books: the Manuscript as a Psalmodic Mask
Introduction: Manuscript as a Persona
1The Space of the Book
2A Canvas of Writing-Blood
3Mountain-book, Hillside-pages
4Facing "Two Cheeks"
Conclusion: the Feminine of Writing
4 The Bimo's Bookish Journey: to Walk through Chanted Lines of Writing
Introduction: Bimo Transhumances and Shamanistic Spatialities
1To Ride, to Walk on Four Hands, to Whirl, to Flow
2Parallelisms
3A Concatenation of Textual Chant
Conclusion: the Writing, Visible, as Access to the Vocalized Invisible Space
5 Bimo Ritual, nyi: Sacrificial Transsubstantiality
Introduction: Blood Sacrifices
1Setting Up the Ritual Framework
2"To Build the Center"
3To Become a mo (Sacrificial Animal)
4"The Sacrificial Animal's Speech"
Conclusion: Bloods
6 Achema: the Yi-Sani Apologue for the Art of Speaking
Introduction: Vocal Co-Dehiscence and Social Reconfiguration
1The Primacy of Speech
2Chema: from Snake-Woman to Dead-Woman
3The Mastery of Speech as a Social Issue, the Art of Speaking as Performance
4To Imitate Nature's Babble
Conclusion: Voices Echo
7 Bimo Religion as Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Process of Standardizing Writings and Chants
Introduction: "Bimo Religion" bìmó jiào 毕摩教
1Bimo Qualification Certificate
2From "Blood" to "Image"
3Current Policies as Rooted in the 19th Century
4To Rewrite: to Restructure the Writing Pages
5From Lineage Writings to the Yi Writing of the Stone Forest County
6From the Secrets of Initiated Men to State Secrets?
7Bimo Music and Chants as Institutions of the Chinese State
Conclusion: Se in the Process of Becoming wén? An Ongoing Shamanistic Schism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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