ISBN:
9781000904666
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (241 pages)
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DDC:
393.09541
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife -- 1. The Thenness and Nowness of Rituals of Passage Among the Zo Christians: Death as Collective Engagement -- 2. Mortuary Beliefs and Practices Among the Khasi Tribe of Meghalaya -- 3. The Rhetoric of Death and Dying: The Khasi and Karbi Context -- 4. Imageries of Life and Death: The Case of Kombirei -- 5. The Death Rituals: An Analysis of the Socio-Religious Practices of Death in Bodo Society -- 6. The Men were Heroes while the Women were Victims: Commemorating the Mizo National Front Movement -- 7. War and the Dead: Funerary Rites, Mourning and Commemorating Second World War Deaths in Northeastern India -- 8. Navigating Death in Diaspora: Easterine Kire's Nagaland -- 9. Death Rituals: An Insight into the Naga Ancestral Religion -- 10. No Rest for our Ancestors in Museums: Unpacking the Preliminary Impressions from the Repatriation Process of Naga Ancestral Remains -- 11. Dialogue with the Shindré: Death Rituals Among the Lhopo of Sikkim -- 12. The Body in Myth and Practice: Symbols of Death in Yumaism -- 13. Corporeal Traces and Sacred Lives: Examining the Mummified Relic of Kalu Rinpoche in Sonada, Darjeeling -- Glossary of Vernacular Terms -- Index.
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