Globalizing Indigeneity

This title examines the Karbi Youth Festival as a platform for cultural revival and preservation of indigenous identity in Northeast India. Chapters address oral traditions, mortuary rituals, and traditional knowledge systems in contemporary contexts. The book explores relationship between language, identity, and nationalism through analysis of Karbi script romanization and festival movements, and also:

• Examines Karbi Youth Festival as a platform for cultural revival and preservation of indigenous identity through oral traditions, rituals, and community practices in Northeast India.

• Addresses oral tradition as historical construct with focus on Karbi mortuary rituals, ritual marches, and traditional knowledge systems in contemporary cultural contexts.

• Explores relationship between language, identity, and nationalism through analysis of Karbi language script romanization and its connection to youth festival movements.

• Investigates role of Karbi Youth Festival in political mobilization and assertion of indigenous agency within broader framework of ethnic movements in Assam.

• Examines inter-ethnic relations and cultural connections between Karbi, Khasi, Jaintia, and Naga communities through comparative analysis of traditions and symbolic practices.

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