Becoming Something Else : Society and Change in India's North East.
Title:
Becoming Something Else : Society and Change in India's North East.
Author:
Singh, N.William.
ISBN:
9781443886338
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (170 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Impact of the Developmental Plan on the Perception of Social and Cultural Change in Mizoram -- Shifting Marriage Practices -- Institutional Changes in the Toto Community -- Zu and the Mizos -- Aspects of Social and Cultural Changes -- Ideas, Institutions and Social Change in Sikkim -- Social Change and Women in Assam -- Interrogating Social Change -- Migration and Social Change in Sikkim -- The Social and Cultural Transformation of the Damai Community -- Rituals, Beliefs and the Traditional Occupation of Brewing Liquor in Chakpa Andro -- Why English? A Historical Study from the Mizo Perspective -- Society and Women -- List of Contributors.
Abstract:
This book examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India's northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies. Each chapter questions the nature of change, and highlights issues which are not a matter of choice but of conviction of the society. This volume will be informative to students and researchers in area studies programmes, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, law, public administration, and ethnology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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