Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife
Parjanya Sen, "Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife"
English | ISBN: 1032344229 | 2023 | 228 pages | PDF | 28 MB
English | ISBN: 1032344229 | 2023 | 228 pages | PDF | 28 MB
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.
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