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Zustand: New. pp. xiii + 155, Illus., Map.

Zustand: New. pp. 256 Illus.

Zustand: New. pp. 254.

illus (illustrator). Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 The Highland Tribes 3 Origin and Dispersion of Kuki Chins 4 Village and Dwelling 5 Swidden and Other Strategies 6 Head hunting 7 Sex Gender and Family 8 Society and Transition Index This book makes a comprehensive study on the highland societies of Tripura and the Chittagong Hill Tracts Ethnic subdivisions in terms of tribal groups and ethnic blocks their clan structures and functions as well as traditions of origin the causes of ethnogenesis etc are elaborately presented Earlier accounts give fragmentary pictures on the migration of the Kuki Chins in the present work their origin and the probable route time and causes of dispersion and their arrival to the places of present settlement are proposed on the basis of extant traditions as well as available historical accounts The significant aspects of highland life and dwelling the peoples attitudes to sex and gender are examined against social and economic developments in time and space Head hunting is now a thing of the past but the tenet of gore as endorsed by some Kuki Chin tribes has never been studied in such kaleidoscopic details as it is done in this book The impact of social changes and transitions on highland life is deep and an inquisitive reader can learn much from this account Jacket 156 pp.

Reprint. Contents Preface 1 List of illustrations 2 Directory of abbreviations 3 Guide to transliteration of IA 4 Frequently used signs and characters 5 Terms and symbols in phonetics and phonology 6 Readers and references Index of terms A Glossary of Phonetics and Phonology is comprehensive reference to the terms commonly used in phonetic and phonological literatures This most useful work contains about 1200 entries ranging on the one hand from phoneme to mora and granules and on the other from the oldest phonological principles of Panini to the recent theories of Particle and Granular Phonology It is an authoritative glossary which can always be comfortably used by students scholars and by anyone with interest in the two core fields of modern linguistics Besides glossing the terms this book gives the possible configurations for and the descriptions of the different IPA vowels consonants and the supra segmentals Important figures and widely drawn examples from over fifty languages of the world support the entries there are useful notes on the orthographic structures of Tibetan Brahmi Devanagari and many Indic languages 256 pp.