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Author : H. Onderson Mawrie
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Kashis
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
On the Khasi people of Northeastern India.
Author : H.O. Mawrie,Sujata Miri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170221811
Author : Charles Reuben Lyngdoh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443857628
Traditional institutions in the Khasi-Jaintia society are “living organisms” which have existed for centuries and internally evolved from one phase to another. Despite having come into contact with newer and more modern forms of administration, they continue to exist, backed by local public opinion that has called for their continuity amidst diminishing responsibility and utility. This collection of papers explores the landscapes of traditional institutions that exist in the present Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India. The chapters blend oral tradition with historical records and available sources from secondary literature. They examine the interplay of power and functions between the constitutional authorities, such as the state government, and the Autonomous District Councils and traditional authorities represented by the traditional institutions.
Author : Rekha M. Shangpliang
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Community forestry
ISBN : 8180696677
Study based on the tribal communities of Meghalaya, India.
Author : Reeju Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192887085
This book is about the entanglements of colonial law, space, and place, in regions defined as frontiers in British India.
Author : S. Lily Mendoza,George Zachariah
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725286429
Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world. The book marshals a robust polyphony of reportage, wonder, analysis, and acumen seeking to open the door to a different prospect for a planet under grave duress and a different self-assessment for our own species in the mix. At the heart of that prospect is an embrace of soils and waters as commons and a privileging of subaltern experience and marginalized witness as the bellwethers of greatest import. Of course, decolonization finds its ultimate test in the actual return of land and waters to precontact Indigenous who yet have feet on the ground or paddles in the waves, and who conjure dignity and vision in the manifold of their relations, in spite of ceaseless onslaught and dismissal. Their courage is the haunt these pages hallow like an Abel never entirely erased from the history. May the moaning stop and the re-creation begin!
Author : Aurelius Kyrham Nongkinrih
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Khasi (Indic people)
ISBN : 817387137X
Study based on Kongthong village in Meghalaya, India.
Author : Ved Prakash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ethnic conflict
ISBN : 8178356627
Author : Sylvia Marcos,Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan,Lillian Ashcraft-Eason,Karen Jo Torjesen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313082733
This book examines the critical and often undervalued contributions of women to the culture, well-being, and subsistence of their communities as active, powerful, and wise ritual specialists. From the Dalit midwives in India to the women of the Nahua region in the state of Morelos, Mexico, from the indigenous nations in Turtle Island in Canada to the shamans (male and female) of South Korea and Vietnam, there are still many vital indigenous cultures around the world in which women often hold positions of religious authority and leadership. Women and Indigenous Religions addresses specific issues in the study of religion, such as the multifaceted tensions between indigenous traditions and gender and the genealogy of positions of authority in religion or spiritual matters. A close examination reveals that native religions, with their women specialists, are still a source of inspiration for millions of men and women even in the "advanced" areas in the world. This fact challenges the opinion that indigenous cultures are becoming extinct.
Author : Banshaikupar Lyngdoh Mawlong,Marco Babit Mitri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443881562
All life forms on earth are complementary to each other; the existence and survival of one depend on the existence of another, and vice versa. However, no life forms are more dependent on others than human beings. Humans’ very survival is conditioned by the existence of the natural environment and the living things within it. One aspect of this interaction is the central and inescapable role played by human culture in defining the human-nature relationship. This book emphasises that environmental conservation is a matter of moral and cultural ethics. It stresses the fact that existing environmental conservation methods need to accommodate traditional environmental knowledge and practices of different indigenous cultures in order to re-build and restore the bond between humans and nature.
Author : Sahdev Luhar
Publisher : N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788195500840
Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.
Author : Parjanya Sen,Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000904666
This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes. In documenting a range of customs and practices pertaining to death, dying and the afterlife among the diverse ethnic communities of Northeast India, the book offers new soteriological, epistemological, sociological and phenomenological perspectives on death. Through an examination of these eschatological practices and their anthropological, theological and cultural moorings, the book aims to reach an understanding of notions of indigeneity with regard to Northeast India. The contributors to this book draw upon a range of subjects— from songs, literary texts, monuments, relics and funerary objects to biographies to folktales to stories of spirit possessions and supernatural encounters. It collates the research of scholars primarily from Northeast India, but also from Eastern India and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of these various belief systems and practices. This book will of interest to those researchers and scholars interested in South Asia in general and Northeast India in particular, and also to those interested in the social anthropology of religion, cultural studies, indigenous studies, folklore studies and Himalayan studies.
Author : Col Ved Prakash
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India, Northeastern
ISBN : 8126907061
This 5-Volume, Encyclopaedic Study Of India S North-East Is The Result Of The Author S 11 Years Of Service Extended Over Three Tenures In The Region, Followed By 6 Years Of Library Research After His Retirement. Being The First Of Its Kind, Given Its Contents And Sheer Size, Over 2,500 Pages, It Is A Unique Book.Writing On The North-East Is Not An Easy Exercise, Given Its Diversity (Ethnic, Racial, Religious And Linguistic), Size, History And Geography. If India Is Microcosmic World, The North-East Is Microcosmic India. Of The 5,653 Communities In India, 653 Are Tribal Of Which The 213 Are Indigenous To The North-East. Of The 213, 111 Are Found In Arunachal Pradesh Alone. Illumined By An Equally Amazing Linguistic Diversity, It Is Home To 325 Of The 1,652 Languages Spoken In India. Yet Again, North-East S Total Population Of 3,84,95,089 (2001) Constitutes 2.69 Per Cent Of India S 1,02,70,15,247, While Its Area Of 2,55,088 Sq Km Is 7.75 Per Cent Of India S 32,87,263 Sq Km.
Author : Queenbala Marak,Sarit K. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000071825
The state of Meghalaya, formed on 21 January 1972, is a state of fascinating socio-cultural significance. Its heritage can be traced from the prehistoric times of Stone Age up to the present. Though comprising mainly of the matrilineal Khasi, Garo, and Jaintia tribes – the state also houses many other lesser known communities such as the Hajong,Sakachep, Biate, Koch, Dalu, Margnar and the Nepali. All these communities find voice in this volume. This book looks at the state of Meghalaya exhaustively from the perspective of heritage documentation and maintenance. The 38 chapters written by anthropologists and independent researchers, present the rich traditions found in the region. This volume will be of great help to academicians, researchers, students, and laymen interested in a comprehensive study of the region. Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in South Asia.
Author : Banshaikupar Lyngdoh Mawlong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527518278
Climate change knows no boundaries and its cost must be borne by all earthlings. While the technologically advanced and developed countries are better prepared for responding to climate change, it is the developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts because they have fewer resources to adapt politically, socially, technologically and financially. Climate change is, thus, a matter of moral and cultural ethics. Climate change adaptation methods need to accommodate traditional environmental knowledge and practices of different indigenous cultures. This book explores the ability to concerted global action and mechanisms to enable developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change that are happening now and which will worsen in the future.