[PDF] Agency And Knowledge In Northeast India eBook

Author : Michael Heneise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351065041

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The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands, dream sharing and interpretation remain important avenues for negotiating everyday uncertainty and unpredictability. This book explores the relationship between dreams and agency through ethnographic fieldwork among the Angami Nagas. It tackles questions such as: What is dreaming? What does it mean to say ‘I had a dream’? And how do night-time dreams relate to political and social actions in waking moments? Michael Heneise shows how the Angami glean knowledge from signs, gain insight from ancestors, and potentially obtain divine blessing. Advancing the notion that dreams and dreaming can be studied as indices of relational, devotional, and political subjectivities, the author demonstrates that their examination can illuminate the ways in which, as forms of authoritative knowledge, they influence daily life, and also how they figure in the negotiation of day-to-day domestic and public interactions. Moreover, dream narration itself can involve techniques of ‘interference’ in which the dreamer seeks to limit or encourage the powerful influence of social ‘others’ encountered in dreams, such as ancestors, spirits, or the divine. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book advances research on dreams by conceptualising how the ‘social’ encompasses the broader, co-extensive set of relations and experiences - especially with spirit entities - reflected in the ethnography of dreams. It will be of interest to those studying Northeast India, indigenous religion and culture, indigenous cosmopolitics in tribal India more generally, and the anthropology of dreams and dreaming.

Author : Charisma K. Lepcha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000506525

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People from India’s Northeast have crafted distinct as well as diverse cultural cryptograms, discernments and personality which is frequently at loggerheads with the power politics from outside the region. Thus, attention is often on the societies of the Northeast India as they putter with transforming institutions and more intensive resource consumption in the wake of modernization and development activities. This volume is an examination into questions of who exercises control, who constructs knowledge/ideas about the region and how far such discourses are people-centric. It inspects how India’s Northeast have been understood in colonial and post-colonial contexts through the contributions from research scholars and faculties from different academic spaces. These contributions are both from within the region as well as from neighbourhood. Thus, presenting a cross-dimensional gaze on social, political, economic as well as issues related to space-relation. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Dr. Karabi Konch
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1646787595

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A Sociological Understanding of North East India attempts to discuss socio-cultural unity and diversity, demographic features, and the linguistic scenario of Northeast India. Traditional institutions of the northeastern region such as family, marriage, religion, and polity are described with examples. The concept of identity and the identity conflict of different ethnic groups, homeland and homeland politics, tribal autonomy, and other related contemporary issues in the northeastern region have been included in this volume. The promotion and development of the tourism sector and the tourist destinations in the eight states have been studied, and different government policies and programs of Northeast India are also incorporated in this volume for discussion.

Author : Lipokmar Dzüvichü
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1351271342

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This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realities of the region. Departing from the usual focus on identity and politics, it offers fresh representations from history, social anthropology, culture, literature, politics, performance and gender. Through the lens of modern practices, the essays in this volume engage with diverse issues, including state-making practices, knowledge production and its politics, history writing, colonialism, role of capital, institutions, changing locations of orality and modernity, production and reception of texts, performances and literatures, social change and memory, violence and gender relations, along with their wider historical, geographical and ideational mappings. In the process, they illustrate how the specificities of the region can become useful sites to interrogate global phenomena and processes — for instance, in what ways ideas and practices of modernity played an important role in framing the region and its people. Further, the volume underlines the complex ways in which the past came to be imagined, produced and contested in the region. With its blend of inter-disciplinary approach, analytical models and perspectives, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and general readers interested in North East India and those working on history, frontiers and borderlands, gender, cultural studies and literature.

Author : H. C. Sadangi
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 9788182054370

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The ethnic mosaic of North-East India offers a fascinating area of academic discourse which needs to be examined for a clear understanding of the elements of separatism or integration which necessarily carry socio-political ramifications. It attempts to assess the contours of ethno-cultural plurality in the social dynamics of the region as well as about its history, geography, economic and concurrent political scenario fogging with insurgency and terrorism. To be more precise, it deals with the land, the people, history, economy, cultural heritage, ethnical composition, with a socio-political relevance of each state of the North-East India. The present book should be of interest to students, scholars, journalists and policy makers interested in the study of ethnic conflicts, politics, insurgency and identity politics. It should be an indispensable reference tool for students of Political Science, Sociology, History and Anthropology.

Author : Jelle J. P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000636992

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The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas. A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.

Author : B. Datta-Ray
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : India, Northeastern
ISBN : 9788170225775

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Contributed papers presented at the Seminar on Reorganization of North-East India since 1947 held in Feb. 1993.

Author : Joydeep Ghosh
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN :

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This book is very important for those who are preparing for various competitive exams like mostly like Northeastern states Public Service Commission, Railway, Agricultural exam, Court, Clark, and many more various departmental examinations. It covers all the topics which are important according to the exam format and new examination pattern. This book is made according to syllabus and maintain the sequence of the syllabus, for that every student will be able to understand clearly. Previous years question paper is also included at the last of the States, and also attached the examination point of view questions which are mostly expected to come in the examination. Simple language, mostly table format, which are very preferable to memorized. I hope one who is reading this book will be able to understand and become successful. BEST WISHES TO ALL THANK YOU

Author : Mélanie Vandenhelsken
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351615629

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This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region. Drawing on current and emerging research in Northeast India studies, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, human geography, sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, media studies and South Asian studies.