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Death and Dying in Northeast India - Indigeneity and Afterlife (Hardcover)
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Death and Dying in Northeast India - Indigeneity and Afterlife (Hardcover)
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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.
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