Stuart Blackburn, Ph.D. (1980) in Folklore and South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has published several books on oral tradition and culture in India, including (with Michael Aram Tarr) Through the Eye of Time: Photographs of Arunachal Pradesh, 1859-2006 (Brill, 2008).

"Not only does Blackburn collect tales, myths, oral histories, and ritual chants with great sensitivity to the social context of the performance, he also opens up meaningful new cross-border directions in Asian folklore studies. Blackburn's comparative work is sure to encourage further investigations into the complex patterns of migration, cultural diffusion, and economic exchange within the 'extended eastern Himalayas'...the scholarly understanding of the Apatani oral traditions has been firmly cemented through the publication of Himalayan Tribal Tales."Adheesh Sathaye, University of British Columbia, JAS, 69/2

Stuart Blackburn, Ph.D. (1980) in Folklore and South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has published several books on oral tradition and culture in India, including (with Michael Aram Tarr) Through the Eye of Time: Photographs of Arunachal Pradesh, 1859-2006 (Brill, 2008).

"Not only does Blackburn collect tales, myths, oral histories, and ritual chants with great sensitivity to the social context of the performance, he also opens up meaningful new cross-border directions in Asian folklore studies. Blackburn's comparative work is sure to encourage further investigations into the complex patterns of migration, cultural diffusion, and economic exchange within the 'extended eastern Himalayas'...the scholarly understanding of the Apatani oral traditions has been firmly cemented through the publication of Himalayan Tribal Tales."Adheesh Sathaye, University of British Columbia, JAS, 69/2

Stuart Blackburn, Ph.D. (1980) in Folklore and South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has published several books on oral tradition and culture in India, including (with Michael Aram Tarr) Through the Eye of Time: Photographs of Arunachal Pradesh, 1859-2006 (Brill, 2008).

"Not only does Blackburn collect tales, myths, oral histories, and ritual chants with great sensitivity to the social context of the performance, he also opens up meaningful new cross-border directions in Asian folklore studies. Blackburn's comparative work is sure to encourage further investigations into the complex patterns of migration, cultural diffusion, and economic exchange within the 'extended eastern Himalayas'...the scholarly understanding of the Apatani oral traditions has been firmly cemented through the publication of Himalayan Tribal Tales."Adheesh Sathaye, University of British Columbia, JAS, 69/2