{"product_id":"ethnolinguistic-prehistory-of-the-eastern-himalaya-9789004513136","title":"Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210842431831,"sku":"9789004513136","price":124.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethnolinguistic-prehistory-of-the-eastern-himalaya-9789004513136","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}