| Exploring The Relationship Between Language and Culture in Dhimal: Dissertation. Edited by Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt Contributor(s): Schmidt, Muhammad Wolfgang G. a. (Author), Dhimal, Som Bahadur (Author) |
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ISBN: 3959354681 ISBN-13: 9783959354684 Publisher: Disserta Verlag OUR PRICE: $87.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 7" W x 10" (2.55 lbs) 678 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The Dhimal are an ethnic minority group of some 20 000 people in the southeastern part of Nepal and adjacent parts of India. Their language is linguistically related to the family of Sino-Tibetan languages. They are one of the 59 recognized indigenous groups who lived on what is today Nepali soil long before the Indo-Aryans arrived with their Hindu culture and caste system constituting the ethnic majority group in Nepal today. In Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, very little is known about the ethnic group of the Dhimals. The author descends from the Dhimal community himself and has presented a dissertation with a wealth of valuable linguistic and ethnographic data. This massive work is likely to become a standard work on the Dhimal community not only in linguistic terms but also with respect to Cultural Anthropology. |