| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 min.) |
| Series |
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 1 |
| Summary |
Fate of the Lhapa is a feature-length documentary about the last three Tibetan shamans (lhapas) living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. With no other descendants to carry on their healing practices and a younger generation attending schools, acculturating, and modernizing, these "sucking doctors" are practicing an endangered tradition |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Event |
Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2007 |
| Notes |
In Tibetan, Subtitles in English |
| In |
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007 |
| Subject |
Tibetans.
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Tibetans.
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| Genre/Form |
Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Sifers, Sarah, producer, author
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Dhondup, Nyima, contributor
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Rhichoe, Pasang, contributor
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Karma Wangchuk, contributor
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