book chapter
The Indo-Tibetans: The Indo-Tibetans and Mongoloid problem in the southern Himalaya and north-northeast India
K. L. Fernandes • Bombay, India • Published In 1954 • Pages:
By: Hermanns, Matthias.
Abstract
The data in this document is primarily on Lepcha myths, supernatural beings, beliefs in and descriptions of the land of the dead, religious practitioners, religious ceremonies, weapons, houses and domestic animals. Some of the author's cultural-historical reconstructions and interpretations may be open to question.
- Subjects
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- Comparative evidence
- Alcoholic beverages
- Normal garb
- Descriptive somatology
- Verbal arts
- Hunting and trapping
- Revelation and divination
- Weapons
- Ethnozoology
- Magical and mental therapy
- Personal grooming
- General tools
- Cosmology
- Eschatology
- Dwellings
- Tillage
- Weapons
- Tillage
- Utensils
- culture
- Lepcha
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Central Asia
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962
- Field Date
- 1951
- Coverage Date
- 1951-1954
- Coverage Place
- Sikkim, India
- Notes
- [by] Fr. Matthias Hermanns
- Only pages vii, 27-109 and end plates VIII-XIX have been indexed for the Lepcha file
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Lepcha (South Asian people)