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Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley

Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley

Blackburn, Stuart

Hardcover

AnthropologyMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 9004171339
ISBN13: 9789004171336
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 16 2008
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
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.

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