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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Année de publication:2012
Langue:English
Collection:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 27.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (386 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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