Author: Suzan Lapai
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Rawang Migration Routes and Oral Tradition
Author: Suzan Lapai
Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas
Author: Toni Huber
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004226915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004226915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Rawang Texts
Author: Randy J. LaPolla
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Gospel Unhindered:
Author: Doug Priest Jr.
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 1645081540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book deals with issues such as current approaches to Bible translation, churches undergoing persecution, spiritual warfare and animists, and the possibility of a greater understanding between Muslims and Christians. All discussions use the book of Acts as their starting point. The various contributors explore these and other issues from their years of experience in over fifteen countries.
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 1645081540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book deals with issues such as current approaches to Bible translation, churches undergoing persecution, spiritual warfare and animists, and the possibility of a greater understanding between Muslims and Christians. All discussions use the book of Acts as their starting point. The various contributors explore these and other issues from their years of experience in over fifteen countries.
Himalayan Tribal Tales
Author: Stuart H. Blackburn
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author: R.E. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317851080
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317851080
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia
Author: Christian Culas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135172013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book examines interethic relationships between groups and the dynamics of exchange networks throughout Asia and includes case studies based in Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, China, Indonesia, and Russia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135172013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book examines interethic relationships between groups and the dynamics of exchange networks throughout Asia and includes case studies based in Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, China, Indonesia, and Russia.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
Author:
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Category : Linguistic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linguistic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Folklore Forum
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Abstracts of Folklore Studies
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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