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Profile of a Little-known Tribe: An Ethnographic Study of Lisus of Arunachal Pradesh. By Asim Maitra. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1993. Pp. xii, 312. Maps, Bibliography, Index.

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Profile of a Little-known Tribe: An Ethnographic Study of Lisus of Arunachal Pradesh. By Asim Maitra. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1993. Pp. xii, 312. Maps, Bibliography, Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Anthony R. Walker
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University of the South Pacific

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1997

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1 See Eileen Crossman, Mountain Rain: A New Biography of James O. Fraser (Sevenoaks [Kent], U.K.): Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982), pp. 20–23.

2 Ju-k'ang, T'ien, Peaks of Faith: Protestant Mission in Revolutionary China (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993), p. 26CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 For bibliographic details see my “From the Mountains and the Interiors: A Quarter of a Century of Research among Fourth World Peoples in Southeast Asia (With Special Reference to Northern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia), Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26,2 (1995): 345, n. 99, 346, n. 101.

4 E.g., Scott, J.G. and Hardimann, J.P., Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, Part 2, Vol. II (Rangoon: Government Press, 1900), pp. 587–88Google Scholar; Archibald Rose and J. Coggin Brown, “Lisu (Yawyin) Tribes of the Burma-China Frontier”, Memoirs of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 3,4 (1911): 249–68; Lowis, C.C., The Tribes of Burma (Rangoon: Superintendent, Government Printing, Burma, 1919), pp. 33–34Google Scholar; C.M. Enriquez, (a) “The Yawyins or Lisu”, Journal of the Burma Research Society 11 (1921): 70–74; (b) A Burmese Arcady (London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1923), pp. 134–43; (c) Races of Burma (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1924), pp. 53–58.

5 Dessaint, Alain Y., “Lisu Annotated Bibliography”, Behavior Science Notes 6,2 (1971): 7194CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Minorities of Southwest China (New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1980), pp. 326–28.

6 A Guide to Lisu Language (New Delhi: Mittal, 1988).

7 “The Ethnography of Lisu Curing” (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1971).