Title Origins and migrations in the extended Eastern Himalayas / edited by Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn

Published Leiden : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) Series Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 16/4 Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/4. 1568-6183 Contents Origins and Migrations in the ExtendedEastern Himalayas; Copyright page; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Trans-Himalayan Migrations as Processes, Not Events: Towards a Theoretical Framework; Where the Waters Dry Up -- The Place of Origin in Rai Myth and Ritual; Where did the Question 'Where did My Tribe Come From?' Come From?; Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh; Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh: Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet Apatani Ideas and Idioms of OriginsMigration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local Identities: The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri; The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers: What is Knowable, and What is Not (Yet); Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India; Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity; Oral Histories and the 'Origins' of Current Peoples: Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping Cords and Connections: Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural ZoneOrigin and Return: Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual; Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic Origin in Southwest China; Contributors; Index Summary Origins and migration are core elements in the histories, identities and stories of Tibeto-Burman-speaking populations in the extended eastern Himalayas. These essays explore theories of explaining origins and migration, methods for studying them and expressions of them in local cultures Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Ethnology -- Himalaya Mountains Mountain people -- Himalaya Mountains Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- History Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Origin Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Migrations -- History History. Ethnology -- Himalaya Mountains Region. History history (discipline) HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Ethnology History Manners and customs Mountain people Tibeto-Burman peoples SUBJECT Himalaya Mountains -- Emigration and immigration -- History Himalaya Mountains -- Ethnic relations Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs Subject Himalaya Mountains Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Huber, Toni, 1956- Blackburn, Stuart H. ISBN 9789004228368 9004228365 9004226915 9789004226913 9781280496448 1280496444

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