The Ancestral Forest: Memory, Space and Ritual among the Kulunge Rai of Eastern Nepal
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9994672029
Length
303p., Maps; Plates; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
Subjects
Lost among the high hills of eastern Nepal, which has meant centuries of cultural isolation, the Kulunge Rai ethnic group have tenaciously ever since their ancient origins. Bearing witness to a far-off past of hunting and nomadic life, their myths and legends form a plot and scenario that comprise a multitude of invisible entities: the "hunter-spirits" and the “"onkey spirits", the undisputed sovereigns of the forest world: Laladum, the ...
