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Origins and migrations in the extended Eastern Himalayas /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Huber, Toni, 1956-, Blackburn, Stuart H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.