Death and Dying in Northeast India : Indigeneity and Afterlife (Paperback)

Introduction- Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife - Parjanya Sen,?Anup Shekhar Chakraborty?1.?The Thenness and Nowness of Rituals of Passage Among the Zo Christians: Death as Collective Engagement- Anup Shekhar Chakraborty?2.??Mortuary Beliefs and Practices Among the Khasi Tribe of Meghalaya- Rekha M. Shangpliang?3.?The Rhetoric of Death and Dying: the Khasi and Karbi Context- Margaret Lyngdoh?4.??Imageries of Life and Death: The Case of Kombirei - Rekha Konsam?5.?The Death Rituals: An Analysis of the Socio-Religious Practices of Death in Bodo Society- Junmani Basumatary, Sudev Chandra Basumatary?6.??The Men were Heroes while the Women were Victims: Commemorating the Mizo National Front Movement- Mary Vanlalthanpuii?7.?War and the Dead: Funerary rites, Mourning and Commemorating Second World War deaths in Northeastern India- Deepak Naorem?8.?Navigating Death in Diaspora: Easterine Kire’s Nagaland- Pritha Banerjee?9.?Death rituals: An Insight into the Naga Ancestral Religion- Vishu Rita Krocha?10.?No Rest for our Ancestors in Museums: Unpacking the Preliminary Impressions from the Repatriation Process of Naga Ancestral Remains- Talilula?11.?The Body in Myth and Practice: Symbols of Death in Yumaism- Vishakha Syangden?12.?Dialogue with the Shindre: Death Rituals Among the Lhopo of Sikkim- Kikee D. Bhutia?13. Corporeal Traces and Sacred Lives: Examining the Mummified Relic of Kalu Rinpoche in Sonada, Darjeeling- Parjanya Sen