Studies in the ritual traditions of the Kumaon Himalaya

Ethnographic investigations into the ritual traditions of Kumaon Himalaya have led to the isolation of a 'death-cycle complex', i.e. a unitary complex of ideas, functions and ceremonial performance concerned with the ritualisation of aspects of Kumaoni death and the inter-relations between...

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Main Author: Quayle, Brendan
Published: Durham University 1981
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257115