Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas / edited by Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn.
| Other author | Huber, Toni, 1956- |
| Other author | Blackburn, Stuart H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, |
| Description | viii, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 16/4 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012000054 |
| ISBN | 9789004226913 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9789004228368 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |