Author: Gorer, Geoffrey
Title: The Lepchas of Sikkim
Description: New Delhi, Gyan Publishing, (1996). Reprint, orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 510 pp,, 22x14cm, A facsimile reprint of the 1938 edition. In a torn dustwrapper. Some page-edge soil.. Textual photo illustrations. Light spotting to cover. A crack to rear interior hinge. Good. ¶ Contents: The Lepchas and Sikkim; Lepcha Life: The Homes of the Lepchas; Getting Food; Relations with Foreigners: Money Lenders & Trading Friends; Relations with Other Lepchas: Law & Order; The Rules of Kinship & Marriage;Relations with the Supernatural: Lamaism; The Mun; The People of Mayel; Life of the Lepchas: Rhythm of Lepcha Life; Birth & Childhood; Sex, Marriage & Maturity; Death; Deviants & Defectives; The Life of Kurma; The First Dorjé Lapoon, His Family & Jiroong; Conclusions: Social Evolution & Aggression; Appendices: Vital Statistics of Lingthem; Lepcha Kinship Terms;Sacred Story of the Origin of Marriage; Lepcha Stories; A Note on Lepcha Language; Vocabulary of Lepcha Words.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Social Anthropology, Lepcha Lepchas, Himalayas Himalaya, Sikkim Ethnology, South Asia, India Himalayan, Tribal Tribe Tribes, Sociology, Ethnography