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List of Illustrations Introduction - Toni Huber and Stuart Blackburn Trans-Himalayan Migrations as Processes, Not Events: Towards a Theoretical Framework - Geoff Childs Where the Waters Dry Up - The Place of Origin in Rai Myth and Ritual - Martin Gaenszle Where did the Question 'Where did My Tribe Come From?' Come From?- Robbins Burling Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh - Alexander Aisher Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh: Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet - Toni Huber Apatani Ideas and Idioms of Origins - Stuart Blackburn Migration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local Identities: The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri - Kerstin Grothmann The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers: What is Knowable, and What is Not (Yet) - Mark W. Post Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India - George van Driem Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity - Marion Wettstein Oral Histories and the 'Origins' of Current Peoples: Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping - F. K. L. Chit Hlaing Cords and Connections: Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone -Mandy Sadan Origin and Return: Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual - Charles F. McKhann Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic - Origin in Southwest China - Koen Wellens Contributors Index |
