Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)

Post, Mark W. (EDT)/ Morey, Stephen (EDT)/ Huber, Toni (EDT)

Brill（2022/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 400 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004513136
• DDC分類 306.44095496

Full Description

The Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity? How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider region?

This pioneering interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of linguists and anthropologists, all of whom seek to reconstruct aspects of Eastern Himalayan ethnolinguistic prehistory from an empirical standpoint, on the basis of primary fieldwork-derived data from a diverse range of Himalayan Indigenous languages and cultural practices.

Contributors are: David Bradley, Scott DeLancey, Toni Huber, Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Ismael Lieberherr, Yankee Modi, Stephen Morey, Mark W. Post, Uta Reinöhl, Alban Stockhausen, Amos Teo, and Marion Wettstein .

Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Maps

Introduction: Ethno-linguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya: Diversity and Its Sources

 Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey and Toni Huber

Part 1 Cultural Practice and Prehistory

2 Reconsidering Zomia from an Eastern Himalayan Perspective

 Mark W. Post

3 The Prehistory of Tangsa as Recorded in Traditional Songs and Stories

 Stephen Morey

4 Ethnographic Comparison and Pre-history? A Comparison of Chamdam Status Rituals among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal and the Feasts of Merit among the Ao Naga of Northeast India

 Marion Wettstein and Alban Stockhausen

5 Principles of Naming in the Eastern Himalaya: What Can They Tell Us about Prehistory?

 Yankee Modi

6 Puroik Sago Terminology

 Ismael Lieberherr

Part 2 Language and Prehistory

7 Phylogeny of Tibeto-Burman from Plants and Animals

 David Bradley

8 Pre-modern Language Contact in Nagaland

 Amos Teo

9 Locating Kera'a (Idu Mishmi) in Its Linguistic Neighbourhood: Evidence from Dialectology

 Uta Reinoehl

10 First Person Pronominals in Kuki-Naga

 Scott DeLancey

11 Sound Changes from Proto-South-Central ("Proto-Kuki-Chin") to Monsang and Their Implications for the Classification of the Northwestern Languages within the South-Central Branch

 Linda Konnerth

12 Kurtöp Verbal Morphology in the East Bodish Context: A Case Study in Ethnohistorical Morphosyntax?

 Gwendolyn Hyslop