Author: Ritu Varuni
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000829855
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It explores the fascinating indigenous knowledge of field and forest and a uniquely sustainable and enduring way of life that continues to evolve in the modern context. The book tells the story of how a material culture was shaped around bamboo and cane resources and nurtured by a strong community spirit and spirituality that transcended the human world and maintained an unbroken ethos of conservation through time. It highlights the eco-sensitive lifestyle of this unique community and presents an in-depth analysis of the Apatani tradition of the exemplary use of natural resources. Through this engrossing detailed study, the author observes how bamboo houses are built in three days, fish cultivated in a rice field and a single river used for millennia to feed an entire community. She highlights the triumph of the human spirit in engineering a cultural landscape out of a swamp, and how peaceful co-existence with nature can withstand the trials of time. Part autobiographical and powerfully personal, this book is a primer on sustainable living as practice. It will be of interest to researchers and students of tribal and Himalayan vernacular architecture, traditional bamboo-cane craft, urban ecology and geography, cultural studies, and sustainability. It will also attract general readership while being academically useful for anthropologists, sociologists, botanists, ecologists and environmentalists.
The Apatani Way of Life
Author: Ritu Varuni
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000829855
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It explores the fascinating indigenous knowledge of field and forest and a uniquely sustainable and enduring way of life that continues to evolve in the modern context. The book tells the story of how a material culture was shaped around bamboo and cane resources and nurtured by a strong community spirit and spirituality that transcended the human world and maintained an unbroken ethos of conservation through time. It highlights the eco-sensitive lifestyle of this unique community and presents an in-depth analysis of the Apatani tradition of the exemplary use of natural resources. Through this engrossing detailed study, the author observes how bamboo houses are built in three days, fish cultivated in a rice field and a single river used for millennia to feed an entire community. She highlights the triumph of the human spirit in engineering a cultural landscape out of a swamp, and how peaceful co-existence with nature can withstand the trials of time. Part autobiographical and powerfully personal, this book is a primer on sustainable living as practice. It will be of interest to researchers and students of tribal and Himalayan vernacular architecture, traditional bamboo-cane craft, urban ecology and geography, cultural studies, and sustainability. It will also attract general readership while being academically useful for anthropologists, sociologists, botanists, ecologists and environmentalists.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000829855
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It explores the fascinating indigenous knowledge of field and forest and a uniquely sustainable and enduring way of life that continues to evolve in the modern context. The book tells the story of how a material culture was shaped around bamboo and cane resources and nurtured by a strong community spirit and spirituality that transcended the human world and maintained an unbroken ethos of conservation through time. It highlights the eco-sensitive lifestyle of this unique community and presents an in-depth analysis of the Apatani tradition of the exemplary use of natural resources. Through this engrossing detailed study, the author observes how bamboo houses are built in three days, fish cultivated in a rice field and a single river used for millennia to feed an entire community. She highlights the triumph of the human spirit in engineering a cultural landscape out of a swamp, and how peaceful co-existence with nature can withstand the trials of time. Part autobiographical and powerfully personal, this book is a primer on sustainable living as practice. It will be of interest to researchers and students of tribal and Himalayan vernacular architecture, traditional bamboo-cane craft, urban ecology and geography, cultural studies, and sustainability. It will also attract general readership while being academically useful for anthropologists, sociologists, botanists, ecologists and environmentalists.
Apatani
Author: Palaniappan Subramanyam
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 9781644299173
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This is a photo documentary on a tribe called Apatani in Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Apatanis are considered to be the pioneers in preserving the ecology. Theirs is a culture that revers the ecosystem and beautifies human relationships. Their community is almost vanishing and being affected by the modern civilization. In this documentary, I have photographed different generations of present Apatanis... to show the change in culture and traditions. I am one of the last few to have experienced the aura that the Apatanis have created. I am presenting to you this photo... documentary along with their stories.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 9781644299173
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This is a photo documentary on a tribe called Apatani in Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Apatanis are considered to be the pioneers in preserving the ecology. Theirs is a culture that revers the ecosystem and beautifies human relationships. Their community is almost vanishing and being affected by the modern civilization. In this documentary, I have photographed different generations of present Apatanis... to show the change in culture and traditions. I am one of the last few to have experienced the aura that the Apatanis have created. I am presenting to you this photo... documentary along with their stories.
Apatani Grammar
Author: P. T. Abraham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Central Institute of Indian Languages is entrusted with the responsibility of assisting the development of tribal and other minor languages. Apatanis are concentrated in the South Central region of the Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. The language is a sub-language of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Central Institute of Indian Languages is entrusted with the responsibility of assisting the development of tribal and other minor languages. Apatanis are concentrated in the South Central region of the Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh. The language is a sub-language of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages.
Through the Eye of Time
Author: Michael Aram Tarr
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This is the first visual history of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India bordering on Tibet/China, Burma and Bhutan. Based on archival and field research, it illustrates a century and a half of cultural change in this culturally diverse and little-known region of the Himalayas. More than 200 photographs, half archival and half contemporary, reveal that tribal cultures in this remote mountainous region have been continually reacting to external forces and initiating internal innovations. The Introduction places the archival photographs in their wider context, emphasising the complexity of the colonial encounter and uncovering personal stories behind many of the images. The sequence of photographs, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary, shows us the uneven and sometimes confusing mixture of past and present that is emerging in Arunachal Pradesh.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This is the first visual history of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India bordering on Tibet/China, Burma and Bhutan. Based on archival and field research, it illustrates a century and a half of cultural change in this culturally diverse and little-known region of the Himalayas. More than 200 photographs, half archival and half contemporary, reveal that tribal cultures in this remote mountainous region have been continually reacting to external forces and initiating internal innovations. The Introduction places the archival photographs in their wider context, emphasising the complexity of the colonial encounter and uncovering personal stories behind many of the images. The sequence of photographs, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary, shows us the uneven and sometimes confusing mixture of past and present that is emerging in Arunachal Pradesh.
Into the Hidden Valley
Author: Stuart Blackburn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941072257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The sins of the father ... Charles Taylor was raised in the typical British manner of the late Victorian era: distant from his father, George, a civil servant in India. The two grow closer as Charles ages, but after his father's untimely death, he finds himself on a path of discovery about George's life and his role in the pacification of tribes near the Tibetan border, especially his father's encounter with a powerful shaman and his son. A past as hidden as the Apatani valley, which protects its secrets well.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941072257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The sins of the father ... Charles Taylor was raised in the typical British manner of the late Victorian era: distant from his father, George, a civil servant in India. The two grow closer as Charles ages, but after his father's untimely death, he finds himself on a path of discovery about George's life and his role in the pacification of tribes near the Tibetan border, especially his father's encounter with a powerful shaman and his son. A past as hidden as the Apatani valley, which protects its secrets well.
The Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours
Author: Christoph von F?rer-Haimendorf
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415330473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes. The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of some 20,000 to live in one valley of 20 square miles. Originally published in 1962.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415330473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes. The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of some 20,000 to live in one valley of 20 square miles. Originally published in 1962.
Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India
Author: Ramaṇikā Guptā
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180693007
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Ramnika Gupta's Indigenous Writers Of India: Introduction And Contribution Vol.1: North-East India makes a valuable contribution in introducing literatis of North East who weave an amazing fabric with different hues and colors, patterns & symbolic motifs of the fascinating culture of the North East India
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180693007
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Ramnika Gupta's Indigenous Writers Of India: Introduction And Contribution Vol.1: North-East India makes a valuable contribution in introducing literatis of North East who weave an amazing fabric with different hues and colors, patterns & symbolic motifs of the fascinating culture of the North East India
The Sun Rises
Author: Stuart H. Blackburn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004175784
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A shaman chants to make the sun rise in the Apatani valley, high in the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis of this oral text, its ritual context and performer reveal the core ideas of local society, including fertility and cohesion.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004175784
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A shaman chants to make the sun rise in the Apatani valley, high in the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis of this oral text, its ritual context and performer reveal the core ideas of local society, including fertility and cohesion.
Marriage and Culture
Author: Tamo Mibang
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183241694
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Contributed articles with reference to Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183241694
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Contributed articles with reference to Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Understanding Tribal Religion
Author: Tamo Mibang
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170999454
Category : Arunachal Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Book Is A Maiden Effort To Textualise Various Elements Of Religious Beliefs And Practices Of The Tribes Of Arunachal Pradesh
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170999454
Category : Arunachal Pradesh (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Book Is A Maiden Effort To Textualise Various Elements Of Religious Beliefs And Practices Of The Tribes Of Arunachal Pradesh