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barter economy analysis
Brahmaputra Valley
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Characteristic Tree Growth
Common Village Land
dafla
Dafla Blood
Dafla Raiders
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eastern
Eastern Himalayan tribal relations
Eastern Himalayas
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ethnographic fieldwork
Free Woman
frontier
Hang Men
Hari Men
Hill Men
Himalayan anthropology
himalayas
indigenous agricultural systems
kinship and law studies
Konyak Naga
Long Houses
Master's House
Mura Class
north
North East Frontier Agency
North Lakhimpur
Patrician Clan
Pinus Excelsa
raiders
region
subansiri
Subansiri Region
Subansiri River
Traditional Trade Partners
tribal social organisation
Unhusked Rice
Verrier Elwin
Wife's Kinsmen
Wife’s Kinsmen
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415330473
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes.
The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of some 20,000 to live in one valley of 20 square miles.
Originally published in 1962.
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
