1st Edition
Karbi Studies in Northeast India Tracing the Ideas of Dharamsing Teron
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Dr. Dharamsing Teron's Journey
Introduction: Dharamsing Teron's Idea of Karbi Studies
1. Exploring Themes in Karbi Philosophy
2. Reading Dharamsing Teron's Mosēra: An Interplay of Folklore and History
3. Contextualizing Karbi Folk Genres in Dharamsing Teron's Writings
4. Exploring Dharamsing Teron's Perspective on Karbi Eco-Philosophy
5. Decoding Historical Memory and Teron's Interpretation of Trauma
6. Decolonizing the Mind through Teron's Method of New Ethnography
7. Memory as Metaphor: The Quest for Karbi Collective Identity
8. Locating Female Dirge Singers in Karbi Oral Tradition
9. Karbi Geo-body from Teron's "Thirding-as-Othering" Perspective
10. The Evolving Karbi Belief System: Some Observations
Index
Biography
Vulli Dhanaraju is currently working as Professor in the Department of History at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya. He obtained his M.A., M.Phil., and PhD degrees in the Department of History from the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has written and edited several books on tribes and other marginalized communities, including Karbis. Currently, he is associating with the Centre for Karbi Studies, Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam, to document Karbi history and philosophy. His recent book, The Mythistory of Kajir Ronghangpi: The Making of Kaziranga National Park was published with Dharamsing Teron.
The’ang Teron is Research Associate at the Centre for Karbi Studies in Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam. He holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology from Delhi University and an MA in Folkloristics from the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is a doctoral fellow affiliated with Project MYTHOPOL in Religious Studies at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, Norway. Additionally, he contributes to the collective, theory from the Margins. His current work involves documenting and theorizing the cultural traditions of the Karbi people through music and writing.
