Author: Ivan Martin SimonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
On a language of the Tibeto-Burman family.
An Introduction to Apatani
Author: Ivan Martin SimonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
On a language of the Tibeto-Burman family.
Himalayan Tribal Tales
Author: Stuart H. BlackburnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004171339
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
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
Author: Stuart H. BlackburnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004175784
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
A Guide to Apatani Language
Author: Tasso SaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Apatani Grammar
Author: P. T. AbrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Central Institute of Indian Languages is entrusted with the responsibility of assisting the development of tribal and other minor languages. Apatanis are concentrated in the South Central region of the Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. The language is a sub-language of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages.
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Author: Graham ThurgoodPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315399490
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.
The Apatani Grammar
Author: Takhe KaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours
Author: Christoph von Fûrer-HaimendorfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136545298
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
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.
An Introduction to Anthropology
Author: Victor BarnouwPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Into the Hidden Valley
Author: Stuart BlackburnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781941072257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The sins of the father ... Charles Taylor was raised in the typical British manner of the late Victorian era: distant from his father, George, a civil servant in India. The two grow closer as Charles ages, but after his father's untimely death, he finds himself on a path of discovery about George's life and his role in the pacification of tribes near the Tibetan border, especially his father's encounter with a powerful shaman and his son. A past as hidden as the Apatani valley, which protects its secrets well.