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Author Hardman, Charlotte.

Title Other worlds : notions of self and emotion among the Lohorung Rai / Charlotte E. Hardman
Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000

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Description xix, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1 THEORIES IN MY BOOTS 1 -- 2 PANGMA PEOPLE 19 -- 3 THE ANCESTORS ARE ANGRY 41 -- 4 THE SUPERHUMAN WORLD AND KNOWLEDGE OF ILLNESS 59 -- 5 KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST FOR THE PRESENT 103 -- 6 LOHORUNG HOUSES: SAYA AND NUAGI 137 -- 7 THE PERSON AND THE CYCLE OF LIFE 173 -- 8 EMOTIONS AND CONCEPTS OF MIND: UNDERSTANDING LOHORUNG BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 223 -- 9 PERSONHOOD, EMOTIONS AND ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY -- CONCLUDING REMARKS 273
Summary "This important ethnographic study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe of about 3,000 members living in Eastern Nepal. These rice farmers have a tradition of migration combined with hunting and gathering. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the daily lives and rituals of the Lohorung. It explores the other world of the Lohorung within which these concepts about the nature of the person and the natural world can be understood." "This study will be relevant not only to Himalayan experts but to all anthropologists interested in self and emotion."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index
Notes Includes text in Lohorung and Nepali
SUBJECT Index http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83722815 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Subject Rai (Nepalese people) -- Social life and customs.
Ethnology -- Nepal.
Self.
Emotions.
SUBJECT Nepal -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116263
LC no. 2001270099
ISBN 1859731503 Cloth
1859731554 Paper