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Long lives and untimely deaths : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India
2012,2011
Overview
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 and reckon life-forces influencing their life-spans.
Publisher
Brill,BRILL
Subject
Darjeeling (India : District) -- Religious life and customs
/ Darjeeling (India : District) -- Social life and customs
/ Life span, Productive -- India -- Darjeeling (District)
/ Longevity -- India -- Darjeeling (District)
/ Old age -- India -- Darjeeling (District)
/ Tibetans
/ Tibetans -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Religion
/ Tibetans -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Social conditions
ISBN
9789004217034, 9004217037
