North-East India: the Horizon of Anthropology

This collection contains an assortment of lifepatterns of the multiethnic tribal and nontribal communities of North East India. The work reflects the lifeways of the people since around the onset of the closing three decades of the last century. That was the period of heavy impact of Western as well as panIndian sociocultural norms of the people of the region. The work highlights the people’s way of absorption and assimilation of the neoWestoriented as well as penIndian sociocultural elements in their emergent lifepatterns.As the North Eastern People’s traditional lifeways are fast disappearing under the impact of multiple forces and factors. The work in this collection should serve the purpose of benchmarketing the trend and quantum of change in the foreseeable future.