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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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Lepcha
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert Lee ; 1958
- Field Date
- 1950-1951
- Coverage Date
- 1950-1951
- Coverage Place
- Sikkim, India
- Notes
- R. Nebesky de Wojkowitz
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 59030548
- LCSH
- Lepcha (South Asian people)