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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>The editors of <i>Asian
Highlands Perspectives </i>are pleased to announce the publication of three new
volumes, available free online:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>If you would like to see Asian Highlands Perspectives in your
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make sure they know about future issues of AHP. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>AHP12</span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Silence in
the Valley of Songs: Work Songs from the Sman shod Valley</span></i><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'><a
href="http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/silence-valley-songs-work-songs-sman-shod-valley">http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/silence-valley-songs-work-songs-sman-shod-valley</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>The text and
more than a hundred full-page color plates document Tibetan folk music
(particularly work songs), and local life in Sman shod Valley, Sde dge County,
Dkar mdzes Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Bo nyed, a
local elder, describes the situation that motivated this timely documentation,
"In the past we sang constantly, but now people don't sing no matter where
they are or what they are doing. Now everyone is silent." The text
includes richly contextualized and annotated transcriptions of the songs'
Tibetan lyrics with English translations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Audio materials
related to this publication can be found at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><a
href="http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/zlaba001.html"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/zlaba001.html</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>AHP13</span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Warming Your
Hands With Moonlight: Lavrung Tibetan Oral Traditions and Culture</span></i><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";
color:black'><a
href="http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/warming-your-hands-moonlight-lavrung-tibetan-oral-traditions-and-culture">http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/warming-your-hands-moonlight-lavrung-tibetan-oral-traditions-and-culture</a></span><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Lavrung is a
little studied Qiangic language spoken by a small group of Tibetans in Rangtang
County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.
This work provides the first monographic introduction to Lavrung Tibetans and
their language and culture, focusing on the use of trilingual (Lavrung,
Chinese, and Tibetan) figurative speech in villagers' everyday discourse. Background
on local oral traditions, including folktales, riddles, work songs, and secret
curative chants, is also provided. A Lavrung-English word list, fifty-six
full-color photographs, and several maps showing the location and distribution
of Lavrung-speaking communities are also included.</span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Audio
and video related to this publication can be found at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><a
href="http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/gyulha001.html"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/gyulha001.html</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>AHP14</span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>May All Good
Things Gather Here: Life, Religion, and Marriage in a Mi nyag Tibetan Village</span></i><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'><a
href="http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/may-all-good-things-gather-here-life-religion-and-marriage-mi-nyag-tibetan-village">http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/may-all-good-things-gather-here-life-religion-and-marriage-mi-nyag-tibetan-village</a></span><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>This work documents marriage customs and
related oral traditions in Bang smad Village, Bang smad Township, Nyag rong
County, Dkar mdzes Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.
Villagers speak the poorly documented Mi nyag language. This study provides
novel linguistic and ethnographic data, including a Mi nyag-English word list,
maps showing the distribution of Mi nyag-speaking communities, and numerous
full-color photographs of village life and wedding festivities. Of special
interest are the transcribed wedding speeches locally given in Mi nyag and
Tibetan.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Audio related to this publication can be found at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/bkrashis001.html">http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/bkrashis001.html</a>
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