Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas, 16/2) (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library) (Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas)

by Stuart Blackburn

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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.
  • ISBN10 9004171339
  • ISBN13 9789004171336
  • Publish Date 16 October 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill