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Tingvong : a Lepcha village in Sikkim.

Lepcha, Dawa T ; Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna

London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2005

61 min.

Ethnographic video online, volume 2

"For educational use only."--Original container

"Produced by Director, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim."

Elektronische Reproduktion von: Tingvong. - London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2005

 

 

Online-Ausgabe: Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012

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"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