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Religious beliefs of the Lepchas in the Kalimpong District (West Bengal)
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland • (3 & 4) • Published In 1960 • Pages: 124-134
By: Jest, M. Corneille.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is based on interview with a religious practitioner, or bon-t'in, in the village of Tanyang, ten miles south of the town of Kalimpong. Jest relates some of the bon-t'in's beliefs, myths, practices and ceremonies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Religious beliefs
- Prophets and ascetics
- Priesthood
- 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.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- 1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1600-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tanyang, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. Corneille Jest
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 003500869x
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lepcha (South Asian people)