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Tingvong : a Lepcha village in Sikkim.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Sino-Tibetan (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Lepcha (South Asian people).
- Social structure--India--Sikkim.
- Social structure.
- Social change--India--Sikkim.
- Social change.
- Sikkim (India)--Social life and customs.
- Sikkim (India).
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (61 min.).
- Other Title:
- Lepcha village in Sikkim
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In Lepcha.
- Summary:
- "This film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940's, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the slash and burn cultivation of dry rice, and became settled agriculturalists. Entire mountains sides were converted to cardamom and terraced for the cultivation of irrigated paddy. The irrigated rice and the cardamom cash crop not only brought the Lepcha within Sikkim's market economy but helped create a surplus which could among other things be invested in religion. In the 1940's, the Lepcha of Tingvong embraced Buddhism and all its complex rituals without however abandoning their strong shamanic traditions. Today, both forms of rituals amiably co-exist in the village. This film is part of a long-term visual anthropology training project for the tribal communities of Sikkim."--Original container.
- Notes:
- "For educational use only."--Original container.
- "Produced by Director, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim."
- Recorded Tingvong, Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, India
- OCLC:
- 849668513
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