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Change and Continuity: An Ethnographic Perspective of the Sagra Misawa Festival of the Tiwas In Assam
By: SIWANI MECH, HASHMAT HABIB – A festival is the culmination of an ethnic group’s collective way of expressing its beliefs, values, and emotions via ritual and performance. The Tiwa’s, like other ethnic groups in Assam, have made important contributions to the state’s social and cultural fabric, and they, too, observe a number of festivals…
An Ethnographic Account of Sudalai Cult, Tamil Nadu, India
By: SIMON S. JOHN – Worshipping of Demon plays a significant role in the folk religious practices of Tamil Nadu, South India. Sudalai – a male folk deity is considered as a chief of all evil spirits by the people in that region and hundreds of temples for Sudalai exist in the southern region of…
Rajbansi Festivals. Decoding Indigenous Knowledge System
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – Indigenous Knowledge System/ IKS and the set of local-level material apparatus are dependent upon non-adaptive domains of the folk life (>folk culture>material apparatus). Altogether non-reflective intangible part of culture (cultural values, social norms, folkways, taboo and traditional belief); reflective and tangible part (set of material apparatus) and reflective but non-tangible…