Through the eye of time : photographs of Arunachal Pradesh, 1859-2006 : tribal cultures in the eastern Himalayas / by Michael Aram Tarr and Stuart Blackburn

Author: Tarr, Michael Aram
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 217 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color), color maps
Additional Creators: Blackburn, Stuart H.

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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 16/1.

Contents

Table of Contents; Abbreviations of sources of archival photographs; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Introduction; A. People and Place; B. Colonial Contacts; C. The Uses of Photographs; Notes; Bibliography; Plates; Appendix: List of Photographs

Summary

Here is the first visual history of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India bordering on Tibet/China, Burma and Bhutan. Based on ample archival and field research, it illustrates a century and a half of cultural change in this culturally diverse and little-known region of the Himalayas.

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ISBN

9789047432913 (electronic bk.)
9047432916 (electronic bk.)
9789004165229 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004165223 (hardback ; alk. paper)

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Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).

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