This book engages with aesthetics and ethics in North-East India. It involves the reader in indigenous knowledge and philosophy. It reflects upon the experiences of fieldwork and the observations made by field researchers. It thoroughly examines the neglected area of the study of women in aesthetic and ethical discourses within the ethnic life world. Its significance lies in addressing marginalized subjectswomen on the one hand and aesthetics-ethics on the other. Highlighting the importance of particularity, the book presents studies of more than 15 ethnic communities of North-East India, capturing indigenous thoughts, connections and linkages among different ethnicities. The book is an important read for students and researchers interested in ethnic philosophy and aesthetics.

Carves out a place for indigenous philosophy in the vast world of philosophical theorizing and narratives Provides rich philosophical insights and fieldworks from North-East region of India Shares a new ontology of ethnicity, built on an empirical reading

Autorentext

Bhagat Oinam is a Professor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is also a Concurrent Faculty member at the Special Centre for the Study of North East India, JNU. He teaches phenomenology and philosophical anthropology and has extensively worked on aesthetics and ethics, besides identity politics and indigenous traditions.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Problems and Methods.- Chapter 3: Ideas of Beauty and Goodness.- Chapter 4: Facets of Existence.- Chapter 5: Bodily Sites and Acts.- Chapter 6: Invoking the Spirit, Beauty, and Celebration of Life.- Chapter 7: Order of the Joyful Life.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.