Book ID: CBB001450736

Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India (2012)

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Gerke, Barbara (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xxiii + 362 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Review Vasstveit, Inger (2012) Review of "Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India". Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (pp. 284-285). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Craig, Sienna R.
Hofer, Theresia
Tatiana Chudakova
Sieler, Roman
Springer, Lena
Smanla, Tsewang
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Berghahn Books
University of California Press
Bergin & Garvey
Harvard University
Concepts
Medicine, traditional
East Asia, civilization and culture
Medicine
India, civilization and culture
Pharmacology
Medicine, Chinese traditional
People
Saṅs-rgya-rgya-mtsho, Sde-srid
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
17th century
12th century
Places
Tibet
China
India
Sichuan Sheng (China)
Buryatia (Russia)
Indonesia
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