Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103937

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140103937

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Reconstructing Eastern Himalayan Histories: languages, plants, and people. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $294,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Understanding Asia's Past | Heritage not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Heritage not elsewhere classified | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified | Linguistics | Understanding Asia's Past

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