ISBN:
9789004228368
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas Ser. v.4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Origins and migrations in the extended Eastern Himalayas
DDC:
954.96
Keywords:
Ethnology ; Himalaya Mountains
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Himalaya Mountains ; Emigration and immigration ; History
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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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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Himalaja Ost
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Indien Nordost
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China Südwest
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Ethnische Gruppe
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Ethnogenese
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Migration
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 Origins -- Migration 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 Zone -- Origin 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.
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