Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trans-Himalayan Migrations as Processes, not Events : Towards a Theoretical Framework / Geoff Childs -- Where the Waters Dry Up : The Place of Origin in Rai Myth and Ritual / Martin Gaenszle -- Where did the Question "Where did My Tribe Come From?" Come From? / Robbins Burling -- Coevolving with the Landscape? Migration Narratives and the Environmental History of the Nyishi Tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh / Alexander Aisher -- Micro-Migrations of Hill Peoples in Northern Arunachal Pradesh : Rethinking Methodologies and Claims of Origins in Tibet / Toni Huber -- Apatani Ideas and Idioms of Origins / Stuart Blackburn -- Migration Narratives, Official Classifications, and Local identities : The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri / Kerstin Grothmann -- The Language, Culture, Environment and Origins of Proto-Tani Speakers : What is Knowable, and What is not (yet) / Mark W. Post -- Glimpses of the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India / George van Driem -- Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity / Marion Wettstein -- Oral Histories and the "Origins" of Current Peoples : Dynamic Ethnogenesis, with Remarks upon the Limitations of Language-Family Subgrouping / F.K.L. Chit Hlaing -- Cords and Connections : Ritual and Spatial Integration in the Jinghpaw Cultural Zone / Mandy Sadan -- Origin and Return : Genesis and the Souls of the Dead in Naxi Myth and Ritual / Charles F. McKhann -- Migrating Brothers and Party-State Discourses on Ethnic Origin in Southwest China / Koen Wellens.