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The 'Lepchas' or 'Rongs' and their songs
Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie • 12 • Published In 1899 • Pages: 41-57
By: Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article contains the texts of nine Lepcha songs, together with the accompanying music for a few of them, as well as the texts of some of the songs in the original script. Waddell begins the work with a short description of Lepcha culture, with caustic comments on the workers who had done transcriptions of the Lepcha before him. Waddell was a Colonel, presumably in the British Indian Service.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Vocabulary
- Music
- Writing
- Visiting and hospitality
- Phonology
- Texts in the speaker's language
- Ethnobotany
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Theory of disease
- Collecting
- Ethnic stratification
- Sacred objects and places
- Utensils
- Medium of exchange
- Musical instruments
- Community heads
- Flora
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Personal names
- Domesticated animals
- Descriptive somatology
- Historical reconstruction
- 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.
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1891
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1891
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sikkim and West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] L.A. Waddell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lepcha (South Asian people)