Source of Life

Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas

by Toni Huber

Book cover: Source of Life

Extent: 1142 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Anthropology, Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Series: Veroffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie

Series volume number: 24

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2020)

ISBN: 9783700182696

Price: $264.00

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In this work three new inquiries into little-known highland populations of the extended Eastern Himalayas are presented. The central concern is ethnographic documentation of peoples’ proactive quest for life, in terms of fertility, virility, procreation and revitalisation by way of practicing their ritual cultures. The work also provides fresh perspectives for understanding ‘bon’-identified cultural phenomena in Himalayan and Tibetan societies. The final inquiry explores new hypotheses about the ethnolinguistic identities and prehistory of speakers within the Tibeto-Burman language family.

  • By (author) Toni Huber