1st Edition
Globalizing Indigeneity Karbi Youth Festival in Northeast India
Introduction: Theorizing Karbi Youth Festival
1. Oral Tradition as a Historical Construct: Dilemmas and Disputations
2. Rong Ketong: Reframing the Ritual March in Karbi Youth Festival Context
3. Karbi Mortuary Rituals as Oral Tradition
4. Aroma of Northeast Cuisine: Fragrant with Love and Hospitality
5. Interpreting the Wilderness of Night: Dreams and Cultural Continuity in Karbi Anglong, Assam
6. Becoming Indigenous: Lessons for the 21st Century
7. Karbi Youth Festival: Preserving Identity through Spaces
8. Cultural Revival and Resistance: Karbi Youth Festival as a Tool for the Reinforcement of Karbi Ethnicity
9. The 10th KYF: A Watershed of the Karbi Political Movement
10. The Converging History of the Romanization of the Karbi Language Script and The Karbi Youth Festival
11. Language and Identity of the Karbis: Possibilities, Direction of Pursuits – Emotive and Pragmatic Interface
12. Trajectory of Karbi Nationalism and its Manifestation through Karbi Youth Festival
13. Biographical Studies in Northeast India: In Need of Further Discussion
14. Inter-Ethnic Relations in Ri-Bhoi: The Khasi-Jaintia Perspective
15. Wings of Identity: The Cultural Significance of Hornbill and Racket-tailed Drongo Feathers in Naga and Karbi Traditions
16. Dynamics of Myth: Negotiating Ethnicity, Identity and Culture of the Northeast India
Biography
Dharamsing Teron is Director of the Centre for Karbi Studies, Diphu, Assam. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Gauhati University for his contributions to the study of Karbi folklore.
Vulli Dhanaraju is Professor in the Department of History at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. He is associated with the Centre for Karbi Studies, Diphu, Assam, for documentation of Karbi history and philosophy.
