Long lives and untimely deaths : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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