Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 16/4 |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/4. 1568-6183
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ethnology -- Himalaya Mountains
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Mountain people -- Himalaya Mountains
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- History
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Origin
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs
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Tibeto-Burman peoples -- Migrations -- History
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History.
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Ethnology -- Himalaya Mountains Region.
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History
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Emigration and immigration
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Ethnic relations
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Ethnology
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History
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Manners and customs
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Mountain people
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Tibeto-Burman peoples
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SUBJECT |
Himalaya Mountains -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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Himalaya Mountains -- Ethnic relations
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Himalaya Mountains -- Social life and customs
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Subject |
Himalaya Mountains
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Huber, Toni, 1956-
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Blackburn, Stuart H.
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ISBN |
9789004228368 |
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9004228365 |
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9004226915 |
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9789004226913 |
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9781280496448 |
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1280496444 |
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