Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195621778 ISBN 13: 9780195621778

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The first general survey in 80 years of the geography and anthropology of the Nilgiris district of south India, this book makes a unique contribution to the growing literature on this region. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines, offer fourteen original studies including the first overview of Nilgir languages, the most recent account of the Kotas, the first archaeological survey of the region since 1873, a detailed biogeographical overview in an anthropological account of south India, and the first sociolinguistic study of a south Indian town.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0195621778
• ISBN 13: 9780195621778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Hockings Paul