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UNINA9910954844003321 |
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Autore |
Driem George L. van |
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Titolo |
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory : The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture / / George L. van Driem |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 pages) |
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Collana |
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Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; ; 26 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropological linguistics |
Ethnology - Himalayan Mountains Region |
Reconstruction (Linguistics) |
Himalaya Mountains Region Languages |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Historical contexts in which we live. Prehistory and the present : crossing national and mythical boundaries -- Evolving scientific views of our origins : as opposed to political projections upon the prehistoric past -- A fascination with phenotypical diversity : the manifold ways in which we humans can look beautiful -- Chinoiserie old and new : language typology with and without racial prejudice -- Episodes of our shared prehistory. Beyond the linguistic Event Horizon : the sub-Himalayan hill tracts and adjacent plains serve as a conduit -- Holocene dispersals : genetic correlates of major linguistic phyla in Eastern Eurasia -- From India to Europe and back : from the Holocene to the beginnings of recorded history. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the |
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