Himalayan Tribal Tales

Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley

Stuart Blackburn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2008
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-17133-6 (ISBN)

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Apatani oral tradition, in the eastern Himalayas, illustrates key cultural ideas, social practices and identity construction. A comparative analysis of Apatani stories reveals parallels across the extended eastern Himalayas, from Arunachal Pradesh to upland Southeast Asia and southwest China.

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.

Stuart Blackburn, Ph.D. (1980) in Folklore and South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has published several books on oral tradition and culture in India, including (with Michael Aram Tarr) Through the Eye of Time: Photographs of Arunachal Pradesh, 1859-2006 (Brill, 2008).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.10.2008
Reihe/Serie	Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas ; 16/2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	688 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-17133-9 / 9004171339
ISBN-13	978-90-04-17133-6 / 9789004171336
Zustand	Neuware