This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The essays here show how the cultures and the imaginative expressions of indigenous communities all over the world are undergoing a phase of rapid depletion. They unravel the indifference of market forces to diversity and that of the...
This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the...
Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as criminal during colonial times. It explores the tragic effect of the new identity imposed on them, the traumatic survival of these communities and cultures, and the creative expression of this experience in their arts and literature in the form of resistance.
Presenting specific contexts and locations of cultural devastation in history, the volume traces colonial social imagination as such, showing how the grossly misperceived non-sedentary communities in the...
Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as criminal during c...
Knowing Differently provides a comprehensive account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities across the world through their distinctive understanding of space and time, joy and pain, life and death, the epistemological clash with the scientific or modern world, along with consequences for their identity, survival and cultural transformation.
Knowing Differently provides a comprehensive account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities across the world through th...
