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Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain life-forces in various areas of knowledge. These life-forces follow daily, monthly, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are widely but varyingly used by Tibetans to assess the strength of life-forces and forecast difficult periods in their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are treated medically or through Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In all these events, temporality and agency are deeply interlinked in the ways in which Tibetans enhance their vitality, prolong their life-spans, and avoid ‘untimely deaths.’

Tibetans --- Tibetans --- Longevity --- Life span, Productive --- Old age --- Social conditions. --- Religion. --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs.

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This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.

Ethnische Identität --- Gurkha --- Separatismus --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Politische Bewegung --- Autonomiebewegung --- Partikularismus --- Unabhängigkeitsbewegung --- Separatist --- Gorkha --- Ghurka --- Nepal --- Gruppenidentität --- Rassische Identität --- Rassisches Bewusstsein --- Rassenidentität --- Identität --- Ethnizität --- Kulturelle Identität --- Ethnische Gruppe --- Ethnie --- Rasse --- Sikkim (India) --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Dārjiliṃ Jelā (India) --- Dārjiling (India : District) --- Sikhim (India) --- Sikkim --- Sikkima (India) --- Politics and government. --- Ethnicity --- Democracy --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Political aspects --- South Asia --- Ethnic Politics, Democracy, Cultural Revivalism, Borderlands, Eastern Himalaya.