por pedroceinos | Abr 14, 2025 | ethnic-groups, yi
An Old Book on the Sani-Yi Minority An Old Book on the Sani-Yi Minority One may wonder whether it makes any sense to read, in the first decades of the 21st century, a book written at the end of the 19th. Clearly, the person who has spent some of their time translating...
por pedroceinos | May 11, 2021 | ethnic-groups, tibetans
Wonderful- yaks most precious treasure is their manure Wonderful- yaks most precious treasure is their manure Most of the travelers who visited Tibet in former times noticed the importance that, for the maintenance of the living of the Tibetan nomads...
por pedroceinos | Mar 21, 2021 | ethnic-groups, yi
The first description of the Religion of the Yi The first description of the Religion of the Yi By Father François Louis Crabouillet in 1872. The religion of the Lolos[i] is that of sorcerers: it consists only of conjurations of evil spirits, according to them, the...