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020			_a9781032767277
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c122164 _d10/11/2025
082			_a307.7 SEN
100			_aSen, Parjanya.
100			_a; Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar.
245			_aDeath and Dying in Northeast India _c/ Parjanya Sen.
260			_a, London _b: Routledge _c, 2024.
300			_axii, 228p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b906.50
520			_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.
650			_aDeath
650			_aDeath and Dying
650			_aNortheast India
700			_aParjanya Sen.
942			_cBOOK
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