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A Conversation with Folklorist and Poet Desmond Kharmawphlang Interfaces : Objects, Orality, Poetry, Place and Ritual</div>
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March 18, 2025</div>
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This presentation will focus attention on <i>Ka Chat Pyrlein, </i>a divination ceremony in which the shaman-singer uses eggs, water, mud, rice grains and the
<i>diplin diknor, </i>a wooden object on which signs are read. The performance of the
<i>Ka Chat Pyrlein </i>also unleashes the chanting of an origin myth, the storyline of which binds the whole performance into an experience of poetry which is at once, primeval and contemporary.</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Mark Bender</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Professor of Chinese Literature and Folklore</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The Ohio State University</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br>
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