Published On
2017-10-30Page Range
pp. 301-452Print Length
151 pages
7. The Song of the Sheep
- Li Dechun (author)
- Gerald Roche (author)
Chapter of: Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English(pp. 301–452)
The Sheep Song is a cultural omnibus depicting various aspects of life on the northeast Tibetan Plateau, and in the same way as the Crop-Planting Song, it spends considerable time mapping space at various levels: the cosmos and its bodies, the earth and its social and political organization, as well as, individual landscapes and their inhabitants.