Naxi Dongba

Naxi people culture and Dongba tradition

Resources

• Home
• Introduction
  1. Introduction to Naxi people, Dongba tradition and Lijiang region
• + Projects
  1. CENSUS - manuscripts digital catalogue
  2. CL.A.U.D.I.A.
  3. Do.M.En.I.
  4. Edition
• + Documents
  1. introduzione alla lingua Nàxi
  2. Sistema pittografico della tradizione manoscritta Dongba, una scrittura ipoarticolata
  3. Utilizzo fonetico dei pittogrammi nella tradizione manoscritta di Lijiang
  4. Appunti di studio sulla storia dell'etnia Naxi e della frequentazione umana nella regione di Lijiang
  5. Introduzione allo studio della storia dell'arte tradizionale e contemporanea del popolo Nàxi e della tradizione Dongba
• + Bibliography
  1. Arras 2010: Créatures mythiques animales dans les manuscrits naxis
  2. History of Naxi people and Lijiang region
  3. Naxi language
  4. Dongba tradition
• + Experimental
  1. Esperimento di codifica TEI di un manoscritto Dongba
• + Conferences
  1. 2010, 17-18/05: Les signes d'animaux et de créatures mythiques en Orient et en Occident. Imagination, représentation et mise en image dans les écritures figuratives, Université d'Artois, Arras - France
  Agenda à l'Universitè d'Artois - Arras
  2. 2009, 27-31/07: New Horizons in Naxi Study - THE 16th WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Yunnan University of Kunming - China
  3. 2008, 24-25/01: Image et conception du monde dans les écritures figuratives, Collège de France, Paris
  brochure .pdf
• + Publications
  1. Dongba pictographic and Geba writing systems iconographic and thematic index plates and classification (Kunming 2009 preliminary 1, .pdf)
  2. Pictograph writing into Dongba manuscript tradition as Hypo-articulated (Kunming 2009 preliminary 2, .pdf)
• + Misc
  1. Wikipedia.it: Dongba
  2. Wikipedia.it: scrittura pittografica dongba
  3. Wikipedia.it: Naxi

External links

• Library of Congress Naxi manuscripts collection
• Harward Yengching Naxi manuscripts collection
• Global NaXi Culture Conservation Society

Naxi and Dongba

My focus here is to study Naxi people history, culture and Dongba tradiction, with particular attention to Dongba pictographs and Geba syllable-graphs writing systems, both present into manuscripts' religious tradiction of Naxis of Lijiang (Yunnan - China).

Thanks to pr. Roberto Rosselli del Turco, this web resource is thought as the web publication of my works, and I organizated it into some themtic sections available from right side Navigation menù:

• Introduction: where I introduce myself as scholar of Naxi culture and Dongba tradition, explaining how I got in touch with them.
• Projects: this section gathers 3 main projects I'm working on.
  1. CL.A.U.D.I.A. achronim for Computational and Updatable Dongbas Iconographic Archive, project focused on implementation of an innovative pictographic dictionary founded on iconographic criteria and quoting attestations for each entry.
  2. Do.M.En.I. which stands for Dongba Manuscripts Encoding Initiative, dedicated to digital encoding of Dongba manuscripts according to TEI standards.
  3. CENSUS, focused on implementation of a world whide general catalogue of Dongba manuscripts.
• Documents: this section gather some documents I wrote and I'm writing about Naxi people and Dongba tradition. Document selected will be open in a new navigation tab and layouted on white backgound, as simple note or draft-work of study.
• Bibliography: this part list an update bibliography dedicated to Naxi people, Naxi culture and language, Dongba tradition and Lijiang history.
• Experimental: during this years of study I implemented some experimental works. Here I'm publishing some of them which could be helpful for further developments.
• Conferences: I thought this section as an archive of conferences and congresses I partecipated.
• Publications: list of publications foucesd on Dongba, Naxi and digital humanities.

External links menù lists some external usefull websites links which are important resources to look at for study of Naxi culture and Dongba tradition.