Ethnic life-worlds in north-east India : an analysis /

"Ethnic Life-worlds in North-East India: An Analysis" draws upon the phenomenological notion of the life-world to understand the culturally-embedded construction of communities, for whom the lived experience of cultural politics constitutes their identity. It analyses the cultural and poli...

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Main Author: Biswas, Prasenjit, 1969-
Other Authors: Suklabaidya, Chandan, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Series:Sage studies on India's north east.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Reconceptualizing an Ethnic Life-World 17
  • 2 Return of the Native 51
  • 3 The Native and the Nation: Jawaharlal Nehru-Verrier Elwin's Philosophical Anthropology 109
  • 4 Insurgency as Counter-Hegemonic Struggle in North-East India 153
  • 5 Shades of 'Colonialism': Contextualizing United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) 212
  • 6 Nations-From-Below: An Interpretation of Life and Politics 231
  • 7 Rethinking India's North-East: Within and Beyond Life-Worlds 256.