Modern Mizoram: History, Culture, Poetics

ISBN-13: 9780367479398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

P. Thirumal;Laldinpuii; C. Lalrozami

Opis

This book offers an alternative understanding of the modern history of Mizoram through an analysis of its cultural practices through language, music, poetry and festivals. It explores the sensibility of modern cultural works not just in Christianity, but also in pre-colonial Mizo traditional practices.

Spis treści

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. On the Discursive and Material Context of the First Handwritten Lushai newspaper Mizo Chanchin Laishuih 2. The Celebration of Puma Zai and the Self-Fashioning of the Lushai 3. The Postcolonial Inheritance of Puma Zai 4. Cultural Works and Their Conversation Across Temporalities: The Pheichham Image. Glossary. Bibliography. Index