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Ancient funeral ceremonies of the Lepchas
Eastern anthropologist • 5 (1) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 27-40
By: Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René de.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper describes the ancient funeral ceremonies of the Lepchas as preserved by oral tradition and perhaps still being practiced in remote areas of Sikkim. The author also discusses the Lepcha conception of the human soul and life after death. There are notes on Lepcha diviners and healers as well as the spread of Tibetan culture into Sikkim.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Burial practices and funerals
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Magicians and diviners
- Mythology
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Ethnic stratification
- Life and death
- Localized kin groups
- Revelation and divination
- Missions
- Animism
- Priesthood
- General character of religion
- Regulation of marriage
- Cultural participation
- Ethnogeography
- Inheritance
- Social readjustments to death
- Ethnogeography
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Theory of disease
- Status, role, and prestige
- Avoidance and taboo
- Preventive medicine
- 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
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1951
- 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. Nebesky de Wojkowitz
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59030548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lepcha (South Asian people)