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Death and Dying in Northeast India

Indigeneity and Afterlife

Herausgeber: Sen, Parjanya; Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar

Beschreibung

This 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. This book will of interest to those researchers and scholars interested in South Asia in general and Northeast India in particular.

Autor

Anup Shekhar Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Political Studies at the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies and a member of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG), Kolkata. He was the recipient of IPSA National Young Political Scientist Award 2020; the IDRC, DEF, and IDF 'India Social Science Research Award' (2009) and was the C.R. Parekh Fellow (2011-2012) at Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science. He has researched on the Zo/Mizo people and has published extensively in this area. Parjanya Sen is Assistant Professor in English at Deshbandhu College for Girls, University of Calcutta. He completed his Ph.D. from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta on the cultural geography of Buddhism in colonial Bengal and was awarded the Ashok Mitra Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis, 2021. A section of his thesis has been published as a chapter in Religion and the City in India (2022). He was also Nehru Trust Visiting Fellow for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2014-15).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781032344225
• ISBN-10: 1032344229
• Artikelnr.: 67823056