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Papers selected in the volume were presented in a seminar entitled Dynamics of Tribal Villages in Arunachal Pradesh: Emerging Realities. These papers have focused on one or the other aspect of village life in tribal villages of Arunachal Pradesh and obviously have made a departure from earlier studies on Indian villages as peasant communities in which villages were studied with a view to understand the ‘nature’ of the villages and dimensions of Indian ...
Papers included in the volume are selected from papers presented in the seminar entitled Dynamics of Tribal Villages in Arunachal Pradesh: Emerging Realities; a few papers were invited later on. These papers have focused on one or the other aspects of village life in tribal villages of Arunachal Pradesh and obviously have made a departure from earlier studies on Indian Villages as peasant communities in which villages were studied with a view to understand the ...
This book reflects a maiden effort to textualise various elements of religious beliefs and practices of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. It amalgamates both etic and emic perceptions about the complex cultural phenomenon known as religion. It deals with the variegated components starting from mythology, philosophy, oral narratives, indigenous beliefs, festivities, etc. with the paradigm of continuity and change. Undoubtedly this book will enhance our ...
This volume contains papers presented in a two-day national seminar on 'Oral Literature of North-East India with special reference to Arunachal Pradesh, sponsored by Sahitya Academy, Baroda and organised by the department of tribal studies, Arunachal University. A few valuable papers are also incorporated to make the volume more comprehensive. In fact, the present volume is an addition to the ongoing process of exploring folklore repertoire from North-East India. ...
Marriage is both culture universal and culture specific; it exists not only in all known cultures, but every culture has defined the system of marriage in a way to get expressions through it. The papers included in this volume discuss the phenomenon of marriage as embedded in culture. Marriage, no doubt, forms a subset of a culture and thus presents a cultural manifestation, but more significantly it displays interconnectedness with other phenomena of the ...