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

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 27
• Author: Gerke, Barbara, 1966-
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2012
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 27.
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• टिप्पणियाँ: Description based upon print version of record.

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...