Book
The land of the Lama: a description of a country of contrasts & of its cheerful, happy-go-lucky people of hardy nature & curious customs; their religion, ways of living, trade & social life
Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd. • London • Published In 1929 • Pages:
By: Macdonald, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author of this popularly written account of Tibetan culture was, for fifteen years, British Trade Agent in Tibet. During that time he became a friend of the Dalai Lama and a sympathetic observer of the culture of the people among whom he was living. Primarily descriptive, the book is organized along the principles of a standard ethnography. There are chapters on geography, history, government, religion, commerce, agriculture, social organization, magic, medicine and so forth. It is especially valuable for the description of the religious life and its relationship to the rest of the culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tibetans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ben Zimmerman ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1904-1925
- NotesAdditional notes
- By David Macdonald... With a foreword by the Right Hon. the Earl of Ronaldshay …
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29015350
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Social life and customs
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Description and travel