Akha death rituals: A preliminary translation, 1984

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Akha Death ritual in Akha and free priliminary translation to English. Contens/Index: With chapter titles in Akha and summary of chapters in English. Chapters 1-22: Transription in Akha and translation in English. Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into chapters. Handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering. Numbering on left margins corresponds to page numbers of original transcriptions in Akha notebooks. Transcribed and translated by IH. Orally tramsitted by phíma àbó go/àbɔ́ gɔ, Mɛ-bý/Maeby

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Akha Death ritual in Akha and free priliminary translation to English. Contens/Index: With chapter titles in Akha and summary of chapters in English.
Chapters 1-22: Transription in Akha and translation in English.
Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into chapters. Handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering. Numbering on left margins corresponds to page numbers of original transcriptions in Akha notebooks.
Transcribed and translated by IH.
Orally tramsitted by phíma àbó go/àbɔ́ gɔ, Mɛ-bý/Maeby

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This collection includes audio recordings, photographs, transcriptions, and notebooks representing the fieldwork of Inga-Lill Hansson of Lund University. Material was collected in Copenhagen and during field trips to Akha villages in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand and subsequently analyzed by Hansson. Genres include ritual texts, traditional narratives, oral histories, music, descriptions of village life, riddles, conversation, and more.

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Hansson, Inga-Lill. Akha death rituals: A preliminary translation, 1984, text, 1984; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2243313/: accessed September 10, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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