TY - BOOK ID - 31000039 TI - The Apa Tanis and their neighbours : a primitive civilization of the Eastern Himalayas PY - 2004 SN - 1138862029 1315017822 1136545298 0415330475 1299871887 9781136545290 9781315017822 9780415330473 9781138862029 9781136545368 9781136545436 1136545360 PB - Oxon [England] : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Apatani (Indic people) KW - Apa Tani (Indic people) KW - Apa Tanis KW - Ethnology KW - Tibeto-Burman peoples UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31000039 AB - 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. <BR> 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 so ER -