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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9782360571062
Collection: Hors Collection
16 x 24 cm
Weight: 785 gr
Pages: 432
First publication: 22/01/2018
Last printing: 01/2018

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Musique et épopée en Haute-Asie

Mélanges offerts à Mireille Helfer à l'occasion de son 90e anniversaire

Meet an essential smuggler of Asian music

A collection of contributions that pays tribute to the wealth and diversity of Mireille Helffer's work, an ethnomusicologist who was captivated by Asia. The contributions evoke the oral literature in Nepal, The epic of King Gesar, epic poem of the Tibetan and Mongol populations, liturgical music, sacred dances, but also more generally art in North Asia. Contributions de Véronique Bouillier, Katia Buffetrille, Hubert Decleer, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Grégory Forgues, Jean Galodé, Marc Gaborieau, Christine Guillebaud, Roberte Hamayon, Amy Heller, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Samten Karmay, Gisèle Krauskopff, Per Kværne, Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Fernand Meyer, Françoise Pommaret, Rabjam Rinpoche, Dana Rappoport, Matthieu Ricard, Françoise Robin, Geoffrey Samuel et Samten Yeshi.

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PRESS REVIEW

Expressive cultures of the Himalayas

A fine occasion to survey the inspiration of Mireille Helffer’s pioneering studies.

(Stephen Jones: a blog 22/01/2021)
Online article

CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Katia Buffetrille

Katia Buffetrille is an ethnologist and Tibetologist, researcher at the Practical School of Higher Studies and affiliated with the Center for Research on East Asian Civilizations (CRCAO).

Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, ethnologist, specialist in Tibetan theater and media, is a professor at the Department of anthropology at Laval University (Quebec).

Françoise Robin

Françoise Robin, professor of Tibetan language and literature at Inalco, is co-author of Thematic vocabulary of spoken language French-Tibetan and translator of Contes facétieux du corpse, books both published in L'Asiathèque.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Mélanges offerts à Mireille Helffer à l’occasion de son 90e anniversaire (Blends offered to Mireille Helffer on the occasion of her 90th birthday )
Rabjam Rinpoche : Hommage (Rabjam Rinpoche: Tribute)
Bernard Lortat-Jacob : Évocation (Bernard Lortat-Jacob: Evocation)
Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy et Katia Buffetrille : Mireille Helffer. Musique et rituel (Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy and Katia Buffetrille: Mireille Helffer. Music and ritual)
Bibliographie de Mireille Helffer (Bibliography of Mireille Helffer)
Conteurs et épopée (Storytellers and epic)
Gisèle Krauskopff : Paroles et musiques. La « littérature orale » aux premiers temps de l’ethnologie du Népal (Gisèle Krauskopff: Words and music. “Oral Literature” in the Early Ethnology of Nepal)
Jean Galodé : Les Gāine. Sur les traces de Mireille Helffer (Jean Galode: The Gaines. In the footsteps of Mireille Helffer)
Marc Gaborieau : Une « histoire d’amour » de l’Himalaya central. Le récit de Mālu Shāhī chanté par Joga Rām (Marc Gaborieau: A "love story" of the central Himalayas. The story of Mālu Shāhī sung by Joga Rām)
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine : Un barde parle de son art (Népal occidental) (Marie Lecomte-Tilouine: A bard talks about her art (Western Nepal))
Dana Rappoport : Lumbaa, le dernier poète. L’oralité toraja en question (Sulawesi, Indonésie) (Dana Rappoport: Lumbaa, the last poet. The Toraja orality in question (Sulawesi, Indonesia))
Roberte Hamayon : Quand un héros finit par effacer l’épopée qui l’a créé, ou L’actuel Geser bouriate est-il encore un héros épique ? (Roberte Hamayon: When a hero ends up erasing the epic that created him, or Is the current Buryat Geser still an epic hero?)
Grégory Forgues : Invoquer le dgra lha. Rituels propitiatoires adressés à Gesar dans la tradition ris med du XiXe siècle : vue d’ensemble et étude de cas (Grégory Forgues: Summon the dgra lha. Propitiatory rituals addressed to Gesar in the 19th century ris med tradition: overview and case study)

Danse, musique et théâtre (Dance, music and theater)
Geoffrey Samuel : Dancers in the Temple. Reflections on Tibetan Ritual and Ritual Dance (Geoffrey Samuel: Dancers in the Temple. Reflections on Tibetan Ritual and Ritual Dance)
Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy : La danse de Gesar au monastère de Dzogchen (Kham). Notes préliminaires (Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy: The dance of Gesar at the monastery of Dzogchen (Kham). Preliminary notes)
Françoise Pommaret & Samten Yeshi : From Tibet to Bhutan. A Note on the Introduction of the Dance of Gesar in Bumthang (Françoise Pommaret & Samten Yeshi: From Tibet to Bhutan. A Note on the Introduction of the Dance of Gesar in Bumthang)
Hubert Decleer : Bodhgaya, Live on Stage. H.H. Karmapa XVIIth Ogyen Trinley Dorje’s Life of Milarepa (Hubert Decleer: Bodh Gaya, Live on Stage. H.H. Karmapa XVIIth Ogyen Trinley Dorje's Life of Milarepa)
Françoise Robin : « Le rêve d’un musicien errant », de Pema Tseden. Traduction commentée (Françoise Robin: "The Dream of a Wandering Musician", by Pema Tseden. Commented translation)
Christine Guillebaud : Du sonneur à l’ingénieur. À propos de l’automatisation des cloches d’église au Kerala (Inde) (Christine Guillebaud: From soner to engineer. About Automation of Church Bells in Kerala (India))
Études népalaises et tibétaines (Nepalese and Tibetan studies)
Véronique Bouillier : Un terrain clos ?  (Véronique Bouillier: An enclosed site?)
Fernand Meyer : Le beau jeune homme et le vieil ascète au teint d’ortie (Fernand Meyer: The handsome young man and the old ascetic with a nettle complexion)
Matthieu Ricard : Vision pure et art sacré (Matthieu Ricard: Pure Vision and Sacred Art)
Franz-Karl Ehrhard : A Thangka from Brag dkar rta so and its Inscription (Franz-Karl Ehrhard: A Thangka from Brag dkar rta so and its Inscription)
Amy Heller : A Bon po Ritual Card of a Deity Holding a gshang Bell (Amy Heller: A Bon po Ritual Card of a Deity Holding a gshang Bell)
Per Kværne : An Alternative Narrative of Tibetan History: Text and Context of the Grags pa gling grags  (Per Kværne: An Alternative Narrative of Tibetan History: Text and Context of the Grags pa gling grags)
Samten G. Karmay et Katia Buffetrille : Un parcours tibétain (Samten G. Karmay and Katia Buffetrille: A Tibetan Journey)