Author: Pamegama, Tarua Candra; compiler: [ Datta, Birendranath; editor: ]
Title: Folksongs of the Misings
Description: Guwahati [Assam], Gauhati University, 1992. orig.boards, dustwrapper. 24x18cm, xviii,192 pp. A tear to dustwrapper.. 1 photoplate.. Rubbed. Binding corner bumps. Flyleaves discolored. Good. ¶ Abor folk songs translated into Assamese and rendered into English. Full title reads: "Folksongs of the Misings: Collected and Compiled by late Tarun Chandra Pamegam / Micisakalara loka-gita / svargiya Tarua Candra Pamegamara dwara samgrhita aru sakalita ; sampadaka Birendranatha Datta ; sahayogi sampadaka aburama aida". Consists of 183 pages of Mising songs in Romanized Mising, with English translation, transliteration in Assamese scrpipt & Assamese translation. Contents: The Misings and Their Folklore; A Brief Note on the Mising Language; Songs and Chants Associated with Rituals; Songs Accompanying Ceremonial and Merry-making Dances; Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes; Songs of Love and Yearning; Particulars Concerning Collection.

Keywords: Mising Ethnolinguistics, Translations Assam, Abor Folk Songs, Oral Literature, Language Folklore, Linguistics Tani, India South Asia, Anthropology Adi, Ethnography Mising, Tibeto-Burman