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Absence of the presence: Social anthropology in NE India
Seven Sisters Post | N William Singh | June 9
The socio-cultural anthropology of Northeast India is not present in mainstream texts. I would like to label this phenomenon peculiar to Northeast India as “absence of the presence”. There is a fair amount of absence of the existing social realities brewing in Northeast India in mainstream academia. They are not highlighted well in academia, not even in mainstream Indian newspapers and highly rated scholarly journals.
So why is it that knowledge on India’s Northeast is absent in mainstream texts? Let me highlight the reasons. It is chiefly because continual issues remain unexplored by social anthropologists in this part of the country. Mainstream sociological and anthropological texts fail to reveal identity formation among tribes of Northeast India.
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