London: Michael Joseph. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. 1/4" tears to cloth at head of spine. Gutters intact. Light spotting to page edges. Provenance: Ex-libris label of J. F. Holman on front pastedown. ; 510 pages + frontispiece + 57 illustrations on 31 plate leaves. Green cloth covers with red lettering on spine. "Lying under the western slopes of Kinchenjunga, in the small native state of Sikkim, is the reserve of Zongu, a rough and precipitous portion of poor land, which is the last home of the Lepchas, a little known Mongoloid race, formerly inhabiting the greater part of Sikkim and the hill-slopes of Kalimpong, and Darjeeling, now gradually dying out before the pressure of Tibetans and Nepali. The Lepchas of Sikkim have never had any contact at all with the white man. Three centuries ago they were conquered by the Tibetans and converted to lamaism; but, except for this conversion, they have carried on their old ways of life undisturbed; they still hunt with the bamboo bow and poisoned arrow; alongside their imported lamaism they continue their own magical Mun religion, with its fits which denote possession by the God; they still continue their own strangely peaceful methods of regulating social life, including those sexual habits which so shock their neighbours but which do away with jealousy and strife within the tribe."; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002833
Title: Himalayan Village: an Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim
Author: Gorer, Geoffrey
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1938)
Keywords: India

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