Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas
By: edited by Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn
Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 16/4
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004226913; 9789004228368
Subjects: Origin; Social life and customs; Ethnology; Tibeto-Burman peoples; Mountain people; Migrations; Ethnic relations; Emigration and immigration; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trans-Himalayan Migrations as Processes, not Events : Towards a Theoretical Framework / Geoff   Childs; title: Where the Waters Dry Up : The Place of Origin in Rai Myth and Ritual / Martin Gaenszle; title: Where did the Question "Where did My Tribe Come From?" Come From? / Robbins Burling; title: Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh / Alexander Aisher; title: Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh : Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet / Toni Huber; title: Apatani Ideas and Idioms of Origins / Stuart Blackburn; title: Migration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local identities : The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri / Kerstin Grothmann; title: The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers : What is Knowable, and What is not (yet) / Mark W. Post; title: Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India / George van Driem; title: Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity / Marion Wettstein; title: Oral Histories and the "Origins" of Current Peoples : Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping / F.K.L. Chit Hlaing; title: Cords and Connections : Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone / Mandy Sadan; title: Origin and Return : Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual / Charles F. McKhann; title: Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic Origin in Southwest China / Koen Wellens.