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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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 27. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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