Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas / edited by Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn.
Origins and migration are core elements in the histories, identities and stories of Tibeto-Burman-speaking populations in the extended eastern Himalayas, a region stretching from eastern Nepal through Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and the hill tracts surrounding Assam, to upland Southeast Asia and sou...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 16/4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 16/4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Trans-Himalayan Migrations as Processes, not Events : Towards a Theoretical Framework / Geoff Childs
- Where the Waters Dry Up : The Place of Origin in Rai Myth and Ritual / Martin Gaenszle
- Where did the Question "Where did My Tribe Come From?" Come From? / Robbins Burling
- Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh / Alexander Aisher
- Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh : Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet / Toni Huber
- Apatani Ideas and Idioms of Origins / Stuart Blackburn
- Migration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local identities : The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri / Kerstin Grothmann
- The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers : What is Knowable, and What is not (yet) / Mark W. Post
- Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India / George van Driem
- Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity / Marion Wettstein
- Oral Histories and the "Origins" of Current Peoples : Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping / F.K.L. Chit Hlaing
- Cords and Connections : Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone / Mandy Sadan
- Origin and Return : Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual / Charles F. McKhann
- Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic Origin in Southwest China / Koen Wellens.