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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).
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Lepcha
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Government Official
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field Date
- 1891
- Coverage Date
- 1891
- Coverage Place
- Sikkim and West Bengal, India
- Notes
- [by] L.A. Waddell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Lepcha (South Asian people)