Dhami-Jhankri
Nature, Spirit, and Medicine: Ethnomedical Traditions of the Manger Community in the Sikkim Himalayas
Dhami-Jhankri, Ethnomedicine, Indigenous Knowledge, Medical Anthropology, Medicinal plants, Sustainable harvestingBy: NISHA THAPA MANGER – This paper presents an integrated ethnographic and ethnobotanical account of the Manger community (also spelled Mangar and identified as Magar in Nepal) in the Sikkim Himalayas. Based on fieldwork in the villages of Mangsari and Suldung in West Sikkim, the study examines the Dhami-Jhankri shamanic healing tradition, the community’s pluralistic…