Long lives and untimely deaths : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India / / by Barbara Gerke.
Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain lif...
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Superior document: | Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 27 |
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Any de publicació: | 2012 |
Idioma: | English |
Col·lecció: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 27. |
Descripció física: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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