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  • The Question of Silence: A Para-biography

    by G N Devy ...
    A selection of conversations, lectures, and philosophical and biographical essays that look at the significance of the polyphony of human voices that are fast vanishing with the advance of civilisation, the place of silence in the making of meaning, and of language itself in the future of knowledge, The Question of Silence is an insightful and thought-provoking meditation on the many silences ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Languages of Tripura

    by Sukhendu Debbarma ...
    The People’s Linguistics Survey of India tries to give an idea of the extant and dying languages of India. It is the outcome of a nationwide survey of languages that has been documented by linguists, writers, social activists, and members of different speech communities.This volume tries to acquaint the reader with the languages spoken in this north-eastern state of India. There are nineteen ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Performance and Knowledge

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies
    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. This final volume in the five-volume series deals with the two key concepts of performance and knowledge of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Environment and Belief Systems

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies
    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.The book, the first in a five-volume series, deals with the two crucial concepts of environment and belief systems of indigenous peoples from all the continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gender and Rights

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies
    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.This book, the second in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of indigenous peoples from all continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts across ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Narrating Nomadism

    Tales of Recovery and Resistance

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty ...
    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 ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Indigeneity and Nation

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies
    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.The book, the third in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of indigenous people from all the continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Orality and Language

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies
    Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples.This book, the fourth in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of language and orality of indigenous peoples from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. With contributions from renowned ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Language Loss of the Indigenous

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty ...
    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 ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Languages of Nagaland

    by G. N. Devy ...
    The People’s Linguistics Survey of India tries to give an idea of the extant and dying languages of India. It is the outcome of a nationwide survey of languages that has been documented by linguists, writers, social activists, and members of different speech communities.This volume attempts to bring to the reader the wealth of languages of Nagaland and contextualise them within contemporary ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Knowing Differently

    The Challenge of the Indigenous

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty ...
    This book offers a bold and illuminating account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities from across continents, through their distinctive understanding of concepts such as space, time, joy, pain, life, and death. It demonstrates how this different mode of ‘knowing’ has brought the indigenous into a cultural conflict with communities that claim to be modern and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Performing Identities

    Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty ...
    Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD