33.409, Books: Voices from the Lost Horizon: Abbi

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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:00:32
From: Sumit Chatterjee [pr at niyogibooksindia.com]
Subject: Voices from the Lost Horizon: Abbi

 


Title: Voices from the Lost Horizon 
Subtitle: Stories and Songs of the Great Andamanese 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Niyogi Books
	   http://https://www.niyogibooksindia.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.niyogibooksindia.com/books/voices-from-the-lost-horizon 


Author: Anvita Abbi

Hardback: ISBN:  9789391125066 Pages: 176 Price: U.S. $ 25


Abstract:

The Andaman Islands—Great Andaman, Little Andaman, and North Sentinel Islands
have been home for milleniums to four tribes: the Great Andamanese, Onge,
Jarawa, and Sentinelese. Their languages are known by the same name as that of
the tribes. ‘Great Andamanese’ is a generic term representing ten languages
among a family of languages that were once spoken by ten different tribes
living in the north, south, and middle of the Great Andaman Islands. These
languages were mutually intelligible like a link in a chain.

However, today, Great Andamanese is a moribund language of the only-surviving
pre-Neolithic tribe, breathing its last breath. When a language is on the
verge of extinction, its history, culture, ecological base, knowledge of the
biodiversity, ethno-linguistic practices, and the identity of its
community—everything is endangered. This is what prompted Prof. Anvita Abbi to
conduct a research study to give life to the lost oral heritage of the
vanishing world of the Great Andamanese.

Voices from the Lost Horizon is a collection of a number of folk tales and
songs of the Great Andamanese. These stories and songs represent the
first-ever collection rendered to the Prof. Abbi and her team by the Great
Andamanese people in local settings. The compilation comes with audio and
video recordings of the stories and songs to retain the originality and
orality of the narratives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=159433




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