The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours

The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours
Author: Christoph von Fûrer-Haimendorf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136545360

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 20,000 to live in one valley of 20 square miles. Originally published in 1962.

The Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours; a Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Himalayas

The Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours; a Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Himalayas
Author: Christoph Von 1909- Fürer-Haimendorf
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014603388

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The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours

The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours
Author: Christoph von Fûrer-Haimendorf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136545298

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 20,000 to live in one valley of 20 square miles. Originally published in 1962.

Art and Culture of North East India

Art and Culture of North East India
Author: L. P. VIDYARTHI
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Total Pages: 211
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 8123026692

This book is an outcome of the author's longstanding field work and researches of different parts of western, central and north eastern Himalayas.

Himalayan Tribal Tales

Himalayan Tribal Tales
Author: Stuart Blackburn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047424646

This study of an oral tradition in northeast India is the first of its kind in this part of the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis reveals parallel stories in an area stretching from central Arunachal Pradesh into upland Southeast Asia and southwest China. The subject of the volume, the Apatanis, are a small population of Tibeto-Burman speakers who live in a narrow valley halfway between Tibet and Assam. Their origin myths, migration legends, oral histories, trickster tales and ritual chants, as well as performance contexts and genre system, reveal key cultural ideas and social practices, shifts in tribal identity and the reinvention of religion.

The Sun Rises

The Sun Rises
Author: Stuart H. Blackburn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004175784

A shaman chants to make the sun rise in the Apatani valley, high in the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis of this oral text, its ritual context and performer reveal the core ideas of local society, including fertility and cohesion.