Northeast India

A Place of Relations

Yasmin Saikia editor Amit R Baishya editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Apr '17

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Northeast India cover

Explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of Northeast India from within.

It explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India. It employs a variety of perspectives and approaches - historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories with a new outlook.Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and Southeast Asia.

ISBN: 9781107191297

Dimensions: 237mm x 160mm x 24mm

Weight: 560g

232 pages