01747nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801310007608200140020710000190022110000330024024500560027326000350032930000240036436500110038852010620039965000100146165000200147165000200149170000180151120251125115145.0251125b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781032767277  aInternational Book DistributorsbFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic122164d10/11/2025  a307.7 SEN  aSen, Parjanya.  a; Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar.  aDeath and Dying in Northeast Indiac/ Parjanya Sen.  a, Londonb: Routledgec, 2024.  axii, 228p.c: 24cm.  b906.50  aThis book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes. In documenting a range of customs and practices pertaining to death, dying and the afterlife among the diverse ethnic communities of Northeast India, the book offers new soteriological, epistemological, sociological and phenomenological perspectives on death. Through an examination of these eschatological practices and their anthropological, theological and cultural moorings, the book aims to reach an understanding of notions of indigeneity with regard to Northeast India. The contributors to this book draw upon a range of subjects— from songs, literary texts, monuments, relics and funerary objects to biographies to folktales to stories of spirit possessions and supernatural encounters. It collates the research of scholars primarily from Northeast India, but also from Eastern India and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of these various belief systems and practices.  aDeath  aDeath and Dying  aNortheast India  aParjanya Sen.