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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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 J. Theodoratus ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sikkim, India
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lepcha (South Asian people)