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Traditional Healing Practices and the Role of Traditional Health Care Practitioners among Kulung Rai community in Sikkim
Disease, Ethnomedicine, health, Illness, India, Kulung, Medical Anthropology, Rai, Shaman, Sikkim, Traditional healer, Traditional healing practices, Traditional healthcare practitionerBy: TENZING ZANGMU LEPCHA – Kulung is one of the clans under Rai community in Sikkim. Traditionally, among Kulung Rai, the concept of somodakha/tobburiri (health), tukkha (illness) and somori (disease) are completely directed by their belief in supernatural beings and have their own traditional system to deal with. Traditional healers have the most important role to play in Kulung Rai society…