Change and Continuity Among Tribes -Hardcover

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Idu Mishmi Tribe of Frontier State of Arunachal Pradesh / Tarun Mene and Sarit K. Chaudhuri 3. Narrating the Tribe: Colonial Constructs and Voicing the Savage: A Post-colonial Study of the Colonial Writings on the Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh : Razzeko Delley 4. Examining the Narratives of Mishmi's Status and its Peregrination of Baptism into Contemporary India / Tilu Linggi 5. Border Trade in Mishmi Hills: A Historical Perspective / Rajiv Miso 6. Idu Mishmis' Social Worlds: Animals, Humans and Spirits / Ambika Aiyadurai 7. Aspects of Marriage System of the Idu Mishmi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh / Justina Umbrey and Razzeko Delley 8. The Great Fire and the Creation Myth: The Oral Tradition of the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh / Rumo Meto and Tarun Mene 9. The Writing System of the Idu Mishmi Language: An Introduction / Mite Lingi 10. Attempts to Write the Idu Mishmi Language and a Proposal for a Modern Orthography / Roger Blench 11. Festival and Emerging Social Reality: A Study of the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh / Tarun Mene and Sarit K. Chaudhuri 12. Cultural Epidemiology of Malaria among the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh / Eva Umpo 13. Funeral Traditions of the Idu Mishmi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh / S. Simon John and Maya Pulu 14. Underestimation of Suicide: A Study of the Idu Mishmi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh / Tarun Mene 15. Sineru Monomyth: The Idu Mishmi Funeral Mythography / Razzeko Delley 16. Euthanasia among the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh: Understanding Issues and Concerns of a Frontier Tribe / Tarun Mene and Sarit K. Chaudhuri