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Title Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas [electronic resource] / edited by Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description viii, 336 p. : ill., maps.
Series Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 16/4
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/4.
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.
Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Migrations -- History.
Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- History.
Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs.
Mountain people -- Himalaya Mountains.
Ethnology -- Himalaya Mountains.
Himalaya Mountains -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs.
Himalaya Mountains -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Huber, Toni, 1956-
Blackburn, Stuart H.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004226913 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9789004228368 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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