Barbara Gerke

Long Lives and Untimely Deaths

Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices Among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do Tibetans in India's Darjeeling Hills understand the life-span and various life-forces that influence longevity? This book analyses ethnographic and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans utilise temporal frameworks in medical, astrological, divinatory, and ritual contexts to locate and reckon life-forces influencing their life-spans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9789004217034
• ISBN-10: 9004217037
• Artikelnr.: 34143185

Autorenporträt

Barbara Gerke, D.Phil. (2008) in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, is the Principal Investigator of a three-year DFG funded research project at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the anthropology of Tibetan Medicine, longevity, toxicity, and methods of purification.