Description |
viii, 336 p. : ill., maps. |
Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 16/4 |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/4.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Origin.
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Migrations -- History.
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- History.
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs.
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Mountain people -- Himalaya Mountains.
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Ethnology -- Himalaya Mountains.
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Himalaya Mountains -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs.
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Himalaya Mountains -- Ethnic relations.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Huber, Toni, 1956-
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Blackburn, Stuart H.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9789004226913 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9789004228368 (electronic bk.) |
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