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Renowned Goddess of Desire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Renowned Goddess of Desire

Tantra is a family of rituals modeled on those of the Vedas and their attendant texts and lineages. These rituals typically involve the visualization of a deity, offerings, and the chanting of his or her mantra. Common variations include visualizing the deity in the act of sexual union with a consort, visualizing oneself as the deity, and "transgressive" acts such as token consumption of meat or alcohol. Most notoriously, non-standard or ritualized sex is sometimes practiced. This accounts for Tantra's negative reputation in some quarters and its reception in the West primarily as a collection of sexual practices. Although some today extol Tantra's liberating qualities, the role of women rem...

The Shan of Burma
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

The Shan of Burma

In this highly personal account, Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics as well as discusses the personalities involved in the war. The final part of this book is a compendium of who's who in Shan history and politics.

Himalayan Tribal Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Himalayan Tribal Tales

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-10-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study of an oral tradition in northeast India is the first of its kind in this part of the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis reveals parallel stories in an area stretching from central Arunachal Pradesh into upland Southeast Asia and southwest China. The subject of the volume, the Apatanis, are a small population of Tibeto-Burman speakers who live in a narrow valley halfway between Tibet and Assam. Their origin myths, migration legends, oral histories, trickster tales and ritual chants, as well as performance contexts and genre system, reveal key cultural ideas and social practices, shifts in tribal identity and the reinvention of religion.

Tribal Culture, Faith, History And Literature: Tangsas Of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396
Proceedings of the North East India History Association
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Proceedings of the North East India History Association

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Landscape, Culture and Belonging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Landscape, Culture and Belonging

This volume is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India.

The Shan of Burma
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

The Shan of Burma

In this highly personal account, the author, Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics covering the issues of autonomy, Shan-Burmese relations, opium, and other contraband trade. He discusses the personalities involved in the war that is now more than twenty years old. The final part of this book is a compendium of who's who in Shan history and politics. The author passed away in July 2004.

The Mughals and the North-East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

The Mughals and the North-East

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its ‘splendid isolation’ and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did not have a pre-colonial past. The present book is an attempt to decenter and demolish the said perceptions and asserts that north-east India had a ‘medieval’ past through linkage with the dominant central power in India – the Mughals. The eastern frontier of this Mughal Empire was constituted by a number of states like Bengal, Koch Bihar, Assam, Manipur, Dimasa, Jaintia, Cachar, Tripura, Khasi confederation, Chittagong, Lushai and the Nagas. Of these, some areas like Bengal were an integral part of the Mughal Empire, while others like K...

The Kingdoms of Laos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Kingdoms of Laos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Describes the changes in society over 600 years as Lan Xang was gradually dismembered and became a French colony. Most importantly, it shows the essence of the Lao and why, despite all that has happened, they possess their own social and cultural values that mark them as distinctive.

The Sun Rises
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

The Sun Rises

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-02
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  • Publisher: BRILL

At the centre of this study is a shaman's chant performed during a three-week long feast in the eastern Himalayas. The book includes a translation of this 12-hour text chanted in Apatani, a Tibeto-Burman language, and a description of the events that surround it, especially ritual exchanges with ceremonial friends, in which fertility is celebrated. The shaman's social role, performance and ritual language are also described. Although complex feasts, like this one among Apatanis, have been described in northeast India and upland Southeast Asia for more than a century, this is the first book to present a full translation of the accompanying chant and to integrate it into the interpretation of the social significance of the total event.