Long lives and untimely deaths : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India /

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How do Tibetans in India's Darjeeling Hills understand the life-span and various life-forces that influence longevity? This book analyses ethnographic and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans utilise temporal frameworks in medical, astrological, divinatory, and ritual contexts to locate...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gerke, Barbara, 1966-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Sujets:
Tibetans > India > Darjeeling (District) > Social conditions.
Tibetans > India > Darjeeling (District) > Religion.
Longevity > India > Darjeeling (District)
Life span, Productive > India > Darjeeling (District)
Old age > India > Darjeeling (District)
Tibétains > Inde > Darjeeling (District) > Conditions sociales.
Tibétains > Inde > Darjeeling (District) > Religion.
Vie active > Inde > Darjeeling (District)
Vieillesse > Inde > Darjeeling (District)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Life span, Productive
Longevity
Manners and customs
Old age
Tibetans > Religion
Tibetans > Social conditions
Darjeeling (India : District) > Religious life and customs.
Darjeeling (India : District) > Social life and customs.
India > Darjeeling (District)
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Long lives and untimely deaths : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India /
par Gerke, Barbara, 1966-
Publié 2011
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