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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.
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2013.
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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.


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