The Lushei Kuki Clans
by John Shakespear
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About this eBook
- Author
- Shakespear, John, 1861-1942
- Credits
- Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Lushai language
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54160
- Release Date
- February 12, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 6.GLOSSARY
- 7.THE LUSHEI KUKI CLANS
- 8.PART I
- 9.GENERAL
- 10.DOMESTIC LIFE
- 11.LAWS AND CUSTOMS
- 12.RELIGION — Translation of a Lushai’s account of the World beyond the Grave — Translation of Lushai Account. — Translation of a Lushai Account of the Sakei-Ai.
- 13.FOLK-LORE — The Tale of Granddaddy Bear and the Monkey. — The Bear’s Water Hole. — The Tale of Him who Demanded His Sister’s Price. — Chhawng-chili and the Rulpui. — Translation of a Lushai Version of the Origin of Khawhring.
- 14.LANGUAGE
- 15.Families and Branches of the Lushei Clan.
- 16.THE NON-LUSHEI CLANS
- 17.INTRODUCTORY
- 18.CLANS INCLUDED IN THE TERM LUSHAI
- 19.CLANS WHICH, THOUGH NOT ABSORBED, HAVE BEEN MUCH INFLUENCED BY THE LUSHEIS
- 20.THE OLD KUKI CLANS — Folklore. — The Story of Fachirang and Rangchar. — The Story of Kúngóri. — Old Kuki Clans—Khawtlang and Khawchhak
- 21.THE THADO CLAN — Thado Folk Tales. — How Benglama Tried to Climb to the Top of the Big “Bung” Tree. — The Story of Ngamboma and Khuptingi.
- 22.THE LAKHER OR MARA CLAN — Constitution of Society.
- 23.LANGUAGE
- 24.COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THADO AND LUSHAI LANGUAGES, WITH NOTES ON THE OTHER CHIN LANGUAGES AND MANIPURI OR MEITHEI.
- 25.INDEX
- 26.WORKS ON ANTHROPOLOGY.
- 27.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Catalog entries — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections
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