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Author: Lalit Kumar Barua
Publisher: Spectrum Publishers (India)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Book Is A Critical And Comprehensive Account Of The Folklore Of North-Eastern India, Describing The Important Features Of Myth, Folktale, Legend And The Long Narrative Poem.
Author: Lalit Kumar Barua
Publisher: Spectrum Publishers (India)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9788187502029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Book Is A Critical And Comprehensive Account Of The Folklore Of North-Eastern India, Describing The Important Features Of Myth, Folktale, Legend And The Long Narrative Poem.
Author: Surajit Sarkar
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781003142430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Northeast India is home to many distinct communities and is an area of incredible ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. This book explores the shared cultural heritage among the highland and river valley communities of Northeast India and mainland South East Asia, including South China, through oral traditions. It looks at these shared cultural traditions and suggests new ways of understanding and interpreting the heritage of Northeast India. Oral traditions often bring forward an unexpected twist in understanding historical and cultural links, and this volume explores this using local knowledge and innovative engagements with oral traditions in multiple ways, from folklore and language to performative traditions. The essays in this volume examine how communities build new meanings from old traditions, often as a recognition of the tension between conservation and creation, between individual interpretation and social consensus. They offer interesting parallels on how oral traditions behave in different socio-economic contexts, and also examine how oral traditions and memory interact with the digital world's penetration in the remote areas. This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of Northeast India, sociology, sociology of culture, cultural studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, folkloristics, and political sociology"--
Author: Surajit Sarkar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1000335585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Northeast India is home to many distinct communities and is an area of incredible ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. This book explores the shared cultural heritage among the highland and river valley communities of Northeast India and mainland South East Asia, including South China, through oral traditions. It looks at these shared cultural traditions and suggests new ways of understanding and interpreting the heritage of Northeast India. Oral traditions often bring forward an unexpected twist in understanding historical and cultural links, and this volume explores this using local knowledge and innovative engagements with oral traditions in multiple ways, from folklore and language to performative traditions. The essays in this volume examine how communities build new meanings from old traditions, often as a recognition of the tension between conservation and creation, between individual interpretation and social consensus. They offer interesting parallels on how oral traditions behave in different socio-economic contexts, and also examine how oral traditions and memory interact with the digital world’s penetration in the remote areas. This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of Northeast India, sociology, sociology of culture, cultural studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, folkloristics, and political sociology.
Author: Dr. Soumen Sen
Publisher: Anjali Publishers
Published: 2010-02-18
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 8189620681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays are written in the context of the so-called tribal areas of the north-eastern region of India. The base data in most cases have however been collected from Meghalaya, the Khasi-Jaintia Hills in particular, my primary research universe. However, the ethnic groups living in the mountainous terrain of India’s north-east, show a characteristic unity, despite linguistic and cultural diversities, that of being in a state of social format called ‘tribal’ facing similar problems of static life, economy and under-development. Added to this are the tensions generated in recent years when education and some waves of development reached the region and tribal self-governing states in the Indian Union came in to being. Consequently, new issues have come into the fore–the issues relating to self-assertion, retention of the age-old cultural identity, the crisis of adjustment between tradition and modernity, and above all, the tensions of a change-over from the tranquil folklife to modern hurly-burly including those of the fast moving world in the days of globalization. Consequently, there also appeared a concern with folklore, the search for a ‘lore’ of essential core, to write a new history. Khasi Jaintia Oral Texts Folklore and Development Antithetic NorthEast India Mentalities,The Folklife and the Socio Psychologial Issues of Development Identity Narrative, Ritual and Historical Jaintia Religion and Identity Khasi Orality Khasi-Jaintia Genre of Folklore The Nongkrem Dances of Khasi Meghalaya Hills, Dales and Groves Folk, Court, Popular Hermeneutics of Religious Practices Verrier Elwin North-East Frontier
Author: Tamo Mibang
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9788170999119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Volume Will Be Of Immense Interest To Scholars, Students, Teachers, Etc., And Those Who Are Really Concerned With The Vast Treasure Of Oral Literature Of The People Of North-East India.
Author: Susan Snow Wadley
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9788180280160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Study Of Folk Traditions Provides A Critical Look At The Accepted, Largely High Caste Male-Authored Views Of Hinduism And Society In India.
Author: Rituparna Bhattacharyya
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-29
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1000623904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the rich pre-history, history, and oral history of the northeast region of India––a land-locked region that is home to over 350 ethnolinguistic communities. Despite its uniqueness and diversity, little is known to the outside world. The book studies the vibrant and diverse socio-political and cultural history of this region through a transdisciplinary perspective, covering a wide range of topics such as the pre-history, medieval and colonial histories of Assam, the geopolitics of the creation of independent states from undivided Assam, oral narratives from Manipur, prehistoric cultures of Meghalaya, the Naga National Movement, Sikkim’s Namgyal dynasty, and Tripura’s transition from monarchy to democracy. It also discusses the invaluable contributions made by Professor Mohammad Taher (1931–2015), who laid the foundation of geography in Northeast India. A compelling exploration of this geo-politically contested space, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of anthropology, archaeology, history, human geography, South Asian studies, and minority studies.
