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THE SHERTHUKPENS OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH: A Narrative of Culutral Heritage and Folklore

By :- Anita Sharma

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Pages: xvi+184

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-444-0

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 19cm x 25cm

Product Year: 2013

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The Sherthukpens, a mild mannered and courteous people, inhabit the Rupa region in the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. Very few scholars have attempted to map the Sherthukpen society in detail and those who have done so have tended to club them with their more populous neighbours, the Monpas. This book documents the vibrant culture and rich diversity of the Sherthukpens and their society, sustained in a land characterised by high mountain hamlets, with precarious wooden houses clinging to wind-swept hill spines. The work attempts to analyse the impact of modernity upon their traditional society and the likely loss and evolution of indigenous knowledge and socio-cultural patterns. The study is an endeavour to bring to the fore their vibrant culture, which exhibits its own energy and vigour, their intricate and rich imaginative faculties, and their emotional and ethical states.

Foreword v Preface vii List of illustrations xiii 1. Introduction 1 2. Social Organisation 11 3. Socio-Political System 33 4. Economy 51 5. Religion 59 6. Rites and Festivals 83 7. Indigenous Knowledge 93 8. Material Culture 113 9. Architecture 125 10. Diet 133 11. Music and Dance 139 12. Behaviour and Morality 145 13. Modernity and Change 157 Appendix 163 Glossary 173 Select Bibliography 177 Index 179

Anita Sharma has studied at Pondicherry, Delhi and Oxford Universities. She has conducted several years of ethnographic research on Himalayan communities including on the Bakkarwals of Jammu and Kashmir, the Sherthukpens of Arunachal Pradesh, the Hajong and Chakma refugees, the Lepchas of Dzongu, and the Limbus of Hee in Sikkim. She is currently working on a project on South Asian nomads for the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, University of Sussex.

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