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.

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Title: Other Worlds. Notions of Self and Emotion among the Lohorung Rai.
Publisher: Oxford-New York, Berg Publishing. 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1859731503
ISBN 13: 9781859731505
Binding: Hardcover

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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 their 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 culture, self and emotion.

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Charlotte Hardman Lecturer in Religion and Contemporary Britain,University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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