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Disposal of the dead in Tibet
Man • 32 • Published In 1932 • Pages: 66-67
By: Asboe, Walter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the various ways in which the dead were disposed of in Tibet, the activities of the mourners, and the ceremonies which follow the funeral. Included also is the Tibetan rationale for these customs and a comparison with the customs of Western Tibet.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Death
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- 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
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tibet
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Rev. Walter Asboe
- The material is indexed mainly for Tibet AJ01; references to Western Tibet, however, will be found in W. Tibetans AJ04
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Tibet (China)