Product Description: Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts is a bilingual (Nepali and English) critical edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts collected over the past twenty years in Jajarkot District, Western Nepal. Throughout that area, shamans continue to fulfill important therapeutic roles, diagnosing problems, treating afflictions, and restoring order and balance to the lives of their clients and their communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text shows how the shamans, during their night-long performances, create the worlds of words in which shamans exist. It analyzes texts that the shamans use to diagnose and treat afflictions that trouble their clients.