Přehled o publikaci
2020
The Sin and Merit of Killing a Tiger: Mentions about rituals connected to the tiger hunting in the oral tradition of Altai Uriankhais
SRBA, OndřejBasic information
Original name
The Sin and Merit of Killing a Tiger: Mentions about rituals connected to the tiger hunting in the oral tradition of Altai Uriankhais
Authors
SRBA, Ondřej
Edition
Oyirad Studies, Budapest, Department of Inner Asian Studies, Research Centre for Mongolian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 2020, 2416-1128
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Country of publisher
Hungary
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization
Filozofická fakulta – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
Altai Uriankhais; tiger hunting; oral tradition; ritual punishment
Links
GA19-07619S, research and development project.
Changed: 17/2/2021 01:59, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík
Abstract
V originále
The extant literature on Mongolian customs include a few mentions about a special tradition of hunting tigers – animals with a highly symbolic value in the whole Inner and East-Asian area. The tradition should have included symbolic and ritual constituent moments: official authorisation of the hunters, ritual communication with local spirits before the hunt, symbolic punishment of the hunters, and rewarding of the hunters by a tax exemption. The written records refer supposedly to traditions connected with the Qing imperial hunting areas. However, a few narratives collected during the field documentation of the current oral tradition of Altai Uriankhais in Western Mongolia testify that a very similar notion of tiger hunting was known far away among Oirat groups despite only marginal occurrence of tigers in their areas in the recent past.
