Other Worlds. Notions of Self and Emotion among the Lohorung Rai.

Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xx, 316pp., illustrations, map, glossary, notes, bibliographical notes, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new. This important ethnographic study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe of about 3000 members living in eastern Nepal. These rice farmers have a tradition of migration combined with hunting and gathering. By examination Lohorung concepts and their discource 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 their concepts about the nature of the person and the natural world can be understood.