ISBN:
9781136545290
,
1136545298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (184 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. South Asia 2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 Apa Tanis and their neighbours
DDC:
305.895
Keywords:
Apatani (Indic people)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Apatani (Indic people)
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Abstract:
Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes. The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of some 2
Note:
Originally published: London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962. - Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record
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