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The Advancing Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Advancing Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Life and culture of Apatanis, indigenous tribe of Arunachal Pradesh.

Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India

Ramnika Gupta's Indigenous Writers Of India: Introduction And Contribution Vol.1: North-East India makes a valuable contribution in introducing literatis of North East who weave an amazing fabric with different hues and colors, patterns & symbolic motifs of the fascinating culture of the North East India

Religious History of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Religious History of Arunachal Pradesh

The book consists 27 research papers on religious culture of Arunachal Pradesh including tribal culture with emphasis on spirits and deities, sacred specialists, and sacred rituals etc. The Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism as practised by some Arunachali tribes are presented in a historical setting along with Brahminical culture in the foothills. This is the first such study of religious history of Arunachal Pradesh and their interaction with the people of Assam, Tibet and Myanmar through the ages.

Understanding Tribal Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Understanding Tribal Religion

The Book Is A Maiden Effort To Textualise Various Elements Of Religious Beliefs And Practices Of The Tribes Of Arunachal Pradesh

Indigenous Writers of India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Indigenous Writers of India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Bio-bibliographical dictionary of 20th century Indic authors.

Marriage and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Marriage and Culture

Contributed articles with reference to Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The Sun Rises
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

The Sun Rises

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A shaman chants to make the sun rise in the Apatani valley, high in the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis of this oral text, its ritual context and performer reveal the core ideas of local society, including fertility and cohesion.

Himalayan Tribal Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Himalayan Tribal Tales

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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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.

From Horror to Hope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

From Horror to Hope

Behind every testimony is an army of God’s warriors. After reading this book, you will appreciate those who have dedicated their lives to preaching the Gospel, and you will empathize with those imprisoned by human trafficking as you see how God can redeem their lives. Project Rescue was no grand strategy of a lone abolitionist who set out to stop sex slavery twenty-five years ago. Instead, courageous men and women of God in different cities of Southern Asia and Europe were led by the Spirit to take Jesus and hope to their cities’ darkest streets and victims of sex slavery. These pioneers had little in common to bring to this battle. But each one was marked by a daring willingness to obey...

From the Enemy's Point of View
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

From the Enemy's Point of View

For the Araweté the person is always in transition, an outlook expressed in the mythology of their gods, whose cannibalistic ways they imitate.