Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas [electronic resource] /
edited by Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- viii, 336 p. : ill., maps.
- Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 16/4 1568-6183 ; .
- Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/4. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trans-Himalayan Migrations as Processes, not Events : Towards a Theoretical Framework / Geoff Childs -- Where the Waters Dry Up : The Place of Origin in Rai Myth and Ritual / Martin Gaenszle -- Where did the Question "Where did My Tribe Come From?" Come From? / Robbins Burling -- Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh / Alexander Aisher -- Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh : Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet / Toni Huber -- Apatani Ideas and Idioms of Origins / Stuart Blackburn -- Migration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local identities : The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri / Kerstin Grothmann -- The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers : What is Knowable, and What is not (yet) / Mark W. Post -- Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India / George van Driem -- Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity / Marion Wettstein -- Oral Histories and the "Origins" of Current Peoples : Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping / F.K.L. Chit Hlaing -- Cords and Connections : Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone / Mandy Sadan -- Origin and Return : Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual / Charles F. McKhann -- Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic Origin in Southwest China / Koen Wellens.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Tibeto-Burman peoples--Origin.--Himalaya Mountains Tibeto-Burman peoples--Migrations--History. Tibeto-Burman peoples--History.--Himalaya Mountains Tibeto-Burman peoples--Social life and customs.--Himalaya Mountains Mountain people--Himalaya Mountains. Ethnology--Himalaya Mountains.
Himalaya Mountains--Emigration and immigration--History. Himalaya Mountains--Social life and customs. Himalaya Mountains--Ethnic relations.