Ethnographic notes on the Mru and Khumi of the Chittagong and Arakan Hill Tracts : a contribution to our knowledge of South and Southeast Asian indigenous peoples mainly based on Ffeld research in the Southern Chittagong Hill Tracts /
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| Author / Creator: | Löffler, Lorenz G. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2012. |
| Description: | 690 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard oriental series ; 74 Harvard oriental series ; 74. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8928882 |
| Summary: | This book is a "thick" description and interpretation of the ethnography of the Mru and Khumi, who live in the Chittagong/Arakan Hills straddling Bangladesh, India, and Burma. They are Tibeto-Burmese speaking horticulturalists practicing swidden agriculture. The work is the outcome of several periods of fieldwork dating back to 1955-1957, 1964, and 1990. Lorenz G. Löffler describes in great detail the material and spiritual culture of these populations: from dwellings and implements to life cycle and social structure, from folklore to religious rituals. All the important local terms are given in Mru and English. The book includes a number of Mru texts along with their translations. It is illustrated by nearly a hundred color photographs and some thirty drawings and designs. |
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| Physical Description: | 690 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 688-689). |
| ISBN: | 9780674066861 0674066863 |