Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya / / edited by Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey, and Toni Huber.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; 52
• TeilnehmendeR: Post, Mark W.,; Huber, Toni,; Morey, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; 52.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 pages)
• Notes: The prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya has forever been shrouded in legend. In this pioneering volume, a group of world-leading linguists and anthropologists reconstruct its extraordinary prehistory from an interdisciplinary perspective for the first time.

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.

Table of 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.