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Hunting and fishing among the Lepchas
Ethnos • 18 • Published In 1953 • Pages: 21-30
By: Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René de.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the methods of hunting and fishing, the various weapons, traps, and poisons used, and the organization of hunting and fishing parties among the Lepchas. Nebesky-Wojkowitz, a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Vienna, did three years of field work in this area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Weapons
- Fowling
- Ethnobotany
- Pharmaceuticals
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Forest products
- Avoidance and taboo
- Field data
- Diet
- Cordage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lepcha
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sikkim, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. de Nebesky-Wojkowitz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 30)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45053696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lepcha (South Asian people)