Book
The Lepchas: culture and religion of a Himalayan people, part 1
The National Museum of Denmark • 11 (1) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 252 , plates
By: Siiger, Halfdan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Siiger was a member of The Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. He based himself in the Sikkim capital of Gangtok and traveled to various Lepcha villages including Git, Tingbung, and Singhik. He stayed for three months in the village of Tingbung near the Lepcha reservation of Jongu and a total of three weeks in Singhik. He also did research in Kalimpong in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India. Siinger reviews the ethnographic literature and history of the Lepcha. He presents information on homes, households, marriage, funerals, religious ceremonies and practices. The work includes 58 photographs and verbatim stories, myths, and prayers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Agriculture
- Verbal arts
- Personal names
- Household
- Religious beliefs
- Ecclesiastical organization
- Texts translated into english
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tingbung, Sikkim and Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Halfdan Siiger
- [Part 2 is not in this volume, and is not included in this document: Lepcha ritual texts and commentary, by H. Siiger.--Phonetic transcriptions of Lepcha ritual texts with introduction, by J. Rischel]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68143453
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lepcha (South Asian people)