Wildlife hunting and trapping have been practiced and are part of the traditional livelihoods and agricultural systems among the Mishmi (Kaman), Arunachal Pradesh. There is a high dependence on forests and swidden farming ...

The spiritual geography of Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh, India, home to the Idu Mishmi people, plays an important role in connecting their social, cultural, and psychological worlds. River valleys, along with lakes, ...

Wildlife hunting in north-east India, till recently, has been studied as an ecological problem, although this is changing with scholars now examining its social and human dimensions. Sociological approaches reveal hunting ...

This chapter examines borderlands from a nonhuman perspective. The borderlands literature discusses human lives, societies, trade, and the challenges posed by modern nation-states, identities, and the global forces of ...

Early formulations grounded linguistic science in the study of �speech� (Bloomfield 1933; De Saussure 1959 [1916]; Sapir 1933). Important thinkers like Saussure claimed the study of linguistics would banish what he believed ...

Social gerontology’s growth as a distinctive discipline has remained contested with continuing debates on gerontology’s limited research focus, disciplinary boundaries and inadequate theoretical development subsequently ...