Reconstructing Eastern Himalayan Histories: languages, plants, and people

该项目将语言和民族志实地考察相结合，制作不丹东博迪亚语(藏缅语)民族的纪录片，最终目的是重建这一群体的社会历史。语言田野调查将聚焦于不同的语义域，包括宗教、农业、民族植物学和语法特征，作为过去的不同镜头。人类学研究将带来新的人种学视角，以补充过去的语言图景，包括宗教习俗和社会组织。该项目正好位于喜马拉雅山脉东部，将为了解亚洲的史前历史提供新的、至关重要的见解。

This project combines linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork to produce documentations of Bhutan's East-Bodish (Tibeto-Burman) speaking peoples, with an ultimate aim to reconstruct the social history of this group. The linguistic fieldwork will focus on different semantic domains, including religion, agriculture, and ethnobotany and grammatical features as different lenses into the past. The anthropological research will bring new ethnographic light in to supplement the linguistic picture of the past, including religious practices and social organisation. Situated squarely within the eastern Himalayas, this project will provide new and crucial insights into the prehistory of Asia.