Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2261384
Joy Das
{"title":"(Re)visiting postcolonial ethno-spirituality in Mamang Dai’s <i>the Black Hill</i> and Easterine Kire’s <i>Sky is My Father: a Naga Village Remembered</i>","authors":"Joy Das","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2261384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2261384","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTEthno-spirituality refers to the discourse associated with spiritual evolution found in ethnic groups or communities. Contemporary North-east Indian literature relentlessly delineates a unique portrayal of the customary set of traditions, beliefs, customs, behaviors, responses or reactions to different situations and ways of life of the concerned tribal groups in their usual socio-cultural milieu. This article explicates the aspects of ethno-spirituality manifested in the select works of Mamang Dai and Easterine Kire as the postcolonial resistance. The purpose of this article is also to reinterpret Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill (2014) and Easterine Kire’s Sky is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered (2018) within the broad postcolonial framework of ‘ethno-spirituality’ to trace and reconstruct their ethnic identity as their cultural heritage, spiritual values, and cultural richness as a frame of reference to indigeneity and belief system.KEYWORDS: Ethno-spiritualityPostcolonialNorth-east Indian LiteratureHistoryEthnic identity AcknowledgmentsI would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable insights and constructive suggestions. It has essentially enriched the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Baruah, Postfrontier blues: Toward a new policy framework for Northeast India, 4.2. Haokip, ‘Conceptualising Northeast India: A Discursive Analysis on Diversity,’ 111.3. Baruah, In the name of the nation. India and its northeast, 25.4. Ibid, 2.5. Phanjoubam, The Northeast question: Conflicts and frontiers, 31.6. Ibid, 33.7. See note 6 above.8. Longkumer, The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast, 92.9. See note 8 above.10. See note 8 above.11. Haokip, ‘Conceptualising Northeast India: A Discursive Analysis on Diversity,’ 112.12. Mebo, a tehsil or taluka, is located in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. It is situated 30 km east of the Pasighat District headquarters. According to Census 2011, there are 1547 inhabitants in the village (villageinfo.in 2021).13. ‘Mishmee’ or ‘Mishmi’, Indigenous folks mostly of Arunachal Pradesh (previously North East Frontier Agency), dwell in the North-East of India, near Assam and Tibet. They speak vernaculars of the ‘Tibeto-Burman linguistic family’ (britannica.com 2021). The natives of the Mishmee region identify themselves as ‘Kmaan, Taraon, and Idu people, and the term “Mishmee” was alien to them … Kmaan, distinct from Taraon whom Kmaan knew as Tah-wrath or Chimmu, and the Idu clans whom they called Mindow and who occupied the territories further south and northwest’ (Dai, The Black Hill, 7).14. The Ao Naga tribes are major Indigenous native groups of people who dwell in Mokokchung district of Nagaland in Northeast India. They are not homogenous, and consist of six major groups, such as Pongen, Longkumer and Jamir of Chungli group; and Imchen, Walling, and Longchar of Mongsen group. ","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136130530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2258361
Aulia Sholichah Iman Nurchotimah, Alif Aditya Candra
{"title":"<b>The Unheard Stories of The Rohingyas Ethnicity, Diversity and Media</b>","authors":"Aulia Sholichah Iman Nurchotimah, Alif Aditya Candra","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2258361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2258361","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Unheard Stories of The Rohingyas Ethnicity, Diversity and Media.\" Asian Ethnicity, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan [201908212015186].","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135734747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2257617
Firmanda Taufiq, Luthfi Maulana
{"title":"Book review. The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian elections: identity politics and regional perspectives","authors":"Firmanda Taufiq, Luthfi Maulana","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2257617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2257617","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan [202002210616028].","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2257142
Dolma Tsering
{"title":"Taiwan and the exiled Tibetan relations: exploring historical ties and current challenges and opportunities","authors":"Dolma Tsering","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2257142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2257142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2254250
Sonali Boro
{"title":"Women’s Work in the Unorganised Sector: Issues of Exploitation and Globalisation in the Beedi Industry","authors":"Sonali Boro","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2254250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2254250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":"101 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41258515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2253441
Unmilan Kalita
{"title":"Playing with Nature: history and politics of Environment in North-East India","authors":"Unmilan Kalita","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2253441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2253441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46032972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2023.2251134
D. Neo
{"title":"Alluring monsters: The pontianak and cinemas of decolonization","authors":"D. Neo","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2251134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2251134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43642262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on place-making through neighbourhoods: an analysis of Northeast Indian out-migrants in Delhi","authors":"Naorem Pushparani Chanu, Rabichandra Singh Elangbam","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2023.2251112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2251112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43057091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}