Himalayan Tribal Tales

Himalayan Tribal Tales
Author: Stuart H. Blackburn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004171339

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.

Tribal Studies in India

Tribal Studies in India
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9813290269

This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are suggestive of grand theories of tribal interaction over time and space within a frame of composite understanding of human civilization. With distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the chapters maximize reader insights into the emerging trend of perspective shifts in tribal studies, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge in the field and providing a road-map of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of anthropology, ethnohistory ethnoarchaeology and of allied subjects like sociology, social work, geography who are interested in tribal studies. Finally, the book can also prove useful to policy makers to better understand the historical context of tribal societies for whom new policies are being created and implemented.

Understanding Women's Land Rights

Understanding Women's Land Rights
Author: Prem Chowdhry
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9789353289508

Seeks to evaluate why few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it by relating it to the gender unequal laws/ policies.

Religious History of Arunachal Pradesh

Religious History of Arunachal Pradesh
Author: Byomakesh Tripathy
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2008
Genre: Andhra Pradesh (India)
ISBN: 9788121210027

The book consists 27 research papers on religious culture of Arunachal Pradesh including tribal culture with emphasis on spirits and deities, sacred specialists, and sacred rituals etc. The Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism as practised by some Arunachali tribes are presented in a historical setting along with Brahminical culture in the foothills. This is the first such study of religious history of Arunachal Pradesh and their interaction with the people of Assam, Tibet and Myanmar through the ages.

Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas

Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas
Author: Toni Huber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004226915

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.

A Philosophy for NEFA

A Philosophy for NEFA
Author: Verrier Elwin
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009
Genre: Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
ISBN: 9788182054912