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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. Abbreviation. 1. Introduction. 2. Trends of studies on indigenous knowledge. 3. Methodology. 4. Respondents profile. 5. Indigenous knowledge in agricultural activities. 6. Indigenous knowledge in forestry and fishing. 7. Indigenous knowledge in socio cultural life. 8. Indigenous knowledge in health and disease. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Appendices. Like other biosphere reserve the Pachmarhi biosphere reserve in Madhya Pradesh is the abode of various tribal groups. Indigenous knowledge has been playing a significant role in the life of Gond Korku and Bharia tribes living in the Pachmarhi biosphere reserve in spite of their increasing exposure to the outside world. This book documents the role of such indigenous knowledge of the aforesaid ethnic groups in the management of agriculture forest and fishing health and diseases as well as their socio economic life. The study reveals that the amount of conflict is low and integration and adjustment between the modern knowledge and indigenous knowledge is high. Further it is inferred that if properly managed indigenous knowledge can play a vital role in their sustainable development. 172 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Acknowledgement. Introduction. 1. Museum management. 2. Conservation preservation and restoration. 3. Exhibit design display and collection. 4. Cultural heritage management and eco museum. 5. Museum education training and personnel. 6. Museum computerization and documentation. 7. Museum security. 8. Museum marketing. 9. Museum and public (visitors). 10. Museum folk art and folklore. 11. Museums in India and the world. 12. Webliography (Web pages of the museums). Addenda. Author index. Subject index. Title index. Much has been written on the Museology museum and heritage management and the related fields and the references are many and distributed over numerous journals monographs memoirs internet database and other publications that are not easily accessible to research workers and the seekers of information. Keeping in view these facts it has been considered useful to compile a comprehensive bibliography available. In this bibliography authors have added a special features that is called Webliography. A critical guide to electronic resources on the World Wide Web and CD Rom including electronic texts HTML encoded texts hypertexts secondary works commentaries and indexes. The bibliography consists of full entries arranged first under broad subject classes and then alphabetically under authors. Each entry has been serially numbered. To facilitate quick references from any desired viewpoint three alphabetical indices vis. subject index author index and title index referring to the text by the serial number have been appended. 314 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Intangible cultural heritage of Assam an introduction/Kishor K. Basa and Birinchi K. Medhi. 1. The intangible heritage of Assam/Sankar Kumar Roy and Birinchi K. Medhi. I. Folk tales 2. Folk tales of Tai Khamtis of Assam a brief comparative analysis/Yikham Gogoi. II. Rituals cults and religious practices 3. The intangible elements in Karbi rituals and the need for their preservation/Upala Barua. 4. Social practices rituals and festive events of the Bishnupriya Manipuris/Shibani Das. 5. Rituals connected with birth and puberty among the Koch Rajbanshis in a rural context of Assam/Mohendra Gogoi. 6. Megalithic culture of Dimoria/Kalpana Choudhury. 7. An appraisal of the mortuary rites of the Pati Rabhas of Assam/Monmee Sonowal. 8. Worship of the Goddess of snake in Assam with special reference to South Kamrup/Anima Choudhury. 9. The concept of area God among the Dimasas of Assam/D.K. Saikia. 10. Indigenous folk tradition in the Assamese Sikh Society/Birinchi K. Medhi. III. Festivals 11. Pai Chankein the water festival of the Tai Khamtis of Assam/Bandana Mahan. 12. The Karam festival of the tea workers of Assam/Banashree Sarmah. 13. Festivals and ceremonies observed by Sri Sri Iswar Hati Satra and Sankaradeva Mandir in Sualkuchi Village Kamrup District Assam/Moromi Talukdar. 14. Rituals and festivals of the Mundas of Upper Assam/Tultul Baruah. IV. Music and performing arts 15. An overview of folk musical instruments of Assam with special reference to structural and acoustic modification of Pepa Bin and Tokari/Prashannia Gogoi. 16. The Rhythmic styles in Bihu Dhol of Assam/Anamika Gogoi Duarah. 17. Jagannathar Nam a performing women of art of North Kamrup Assam/Kailash Bhattacharyya. 18. Satriya dance a unifying force/Tanuja Bora. 19. The Bhaira of Jagra area of Nalbari District Assam/Anjali Bhattacharyya. V. Arts and crafts 20. Tradition of mask at a Vaishnavite Monastery in Majuli of Assam/Birinchi K. Medhi and Arifur Zaman. 21. The traditional brass metal craft of the Marias of Assam/Sandhya Das. 22. Intangible aspects of pottery in Kamrup District of Assam/Pradip Goswami. VI. Culinary traditions 23. Intangible cultural elements associated with food among the Assamese Hindus of Silsakoo area of North Guwahati Assam/Lipika Sarmah. VII. Ethnoscience and conservation of biodiversity 24. Intangible cultural elements in the ethno medicinal practices of the Garos of Assam/Biranchi K. Medhi and Rameeza Hasan. 25. Beliefs integral to ethno medicinal plants in a rural context of Assam/Chandana Sarma and Birinchi K. Medhi. 26. Indigenous knowledge of the Assamese in the treatment of women's diseases/Birinchi K. Medhi and Mahasweta Saikia. 27. Traditional child care practices among the Kaibartas of North Guwahati/Pixy Bhani Baruah. 28. Customary practices related to natural resource management a case study of the hill Tiwas of Assam/Indrani Barpujari. Notes on contributors. Highlighting the intangible cultural heritage of Assam the gateway to North East India the present volume contains papers under seven themes for documenting such heritage. Based on field work of a number of scholars this book is an humble tribute to the creativity as well as the ingenuity of the Assamese Intangible cultural heritage. It is hoped that the volume would be relevant to anthropologists sociologists and other connoisseur of folk and tribal heritage as well as traditional knowledge system. 308 pp.

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Volume I: Preface. Section I - Before Megaliths: 1. The Harappan funerary monuments and practices at Dholavira/R.S. Bisht. 2. Burial concepts and traditions in pre-iron age India: an overview/Shantanu Vaidya and Yogesh Mallinathpur M. Section II - Megalithic Traditions in Archaeology: 3. Archaeology of death: an antiquarian perspective from Kerala/S. Darsana. 4. From site to landscape: megaliths in Kasaragod, Northern Kerala/K. Jayashree Nair. 5. Megaliths of Kodaikanal Region/R.N. Kumaran and M. Saranya. 6. Cognitive aspects of the iron age-early historic (megalithic) cultures of South India/V. Selvakumar. 7. The Megalithic problem of Vidarbha in a wider perspective: retrospect and prospects/Rabindra K. Mohanty. 8. Megalithic traditions of early iron age Maharashtra/P.S. Joshi. 9. Craft specialization and socio-economic behaviour of the megalithic people of Vidarbha, Maharashtra/Tilok Thakuria, Rabindra K. Mohanty and P.P. Joglekar. 10. Recent development in the megalithic research in Vidarbha: a review/Ismail Kellellu, Chandra Shekhar Gupta, P.S. Meshram, P.M. Khobragade, Rabindra K. Mohanty and Tilok Thakuria. 11. Relocating Ashmaka Mahajanapada: an assessment of vidarbha megalithic/Reshma Sawant. 12. Iron age megalithic monuments of Tamil Nadu/K. Rajan. 13. Excavations at Kaundinyapur (2000-2001)/Sheila Mishra, Gurudas Shete and B.C. Deotare. 14. Megaliths of Chhattisgarh/A.K. Sharma. 15. The Megalithic cultures of the Adwa Valley: North-Central Vindhyas/V.D. Misra, B.B. Misra and Ajai Kumar Misra. 16. Ancient burials in Central Himalayan region/J.S. Kharakwal. 17. Burial traditions in Uttarakhand: an archaeological study/R.C. Bhatt, B.M. Khanduri, Vinod Nautiyal, Sanjiv Juyal, Manoj K. Nautiyal and Sudhir Nautiyal. 18. Situating iron age and early historic in archaeological context: some issues/K. Rajan. Volume II: Section III - Application of Scientific Techniques: 19. Megalithic iron smelting/Vishwas D. Gogte. 20. Characteristics of ancient metallurgy in Kerala, South India/P. Rajendran and C.S.P. Iyer. 21. Iron age and steeling in ancient Vidarbha region of Maharashtra: technical aspects/P.P. Deshpande and Rabindra K. Mohanty. 22. Faunal exploitation patterns during the iron age in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra with special reference to Mahurjhari/Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, P.K. Thomas and Rabindra K. Mohanty. 23. Agricultural continuity and change during the megalithic and early historic periods in South India/Miriam Cooke and Dorian Q. Fuller. 24. Subsistence strategies during the Megalithic period of South India/U.S. Moorti. 25. Palaeodemography of the megalith builders of South India/S.R. Walimbe. 26. Palaeopathological aspect of osteological studies carried out on the iron age site of Kodumanal, Tamil Nadu/Veena Mushrif-Tripathy and K. Rajan. 27. Astronomy of the megalithic people: the case of earliest sky map from India/K.P. Rao. 28. Megalithic astronomy in the Indian subcontinent/Srikumar M. Menon, Mayank N. Vahia and Kailash Rao M. Section IV - Memorial Monuments of Mediaeval India: 29. Memorial monuments in Bundelkhand: a case study of the Cenotaphs from Tikamgarh and Datia districts of Madhya Pradesh/Manoj Kumar Jain, Shail Pradhan and Om Prakash Mishra. Section V - Ethnographic Studies: 30. Death, memory and society: an ethnoarchaeological study of Angami mortuary practices/Tiatoshi Jamir. 31. Distribution of megalithic traditions and ethnography in Manipur/P. Binodini Devi. 32. Living megalithic traditions in Manipur/P. Binodini Devi. 33. Living megalithic tradition among the Karbis of Dhorbam in Kamrup District, Assam/Anamika Gogoi Duarah. 34. Socio-religious significance of the megaliths of the Karbis of Dimoria/Birinchi K. Medhi and Kalpana Choudhury. 35. Living megalithic traditions of the Hos of Jharkhand and Orissa/Basanta Kumar Mohanta. 36. The Hill Saora death rituals: beliefs and practices/Subodh Kumar Mohanty. 37. Mortuary practices and megalithic traditions of the.