The Relationship Between the Karbi and the Dense Forest Environment
The Role of the Kenglong-Po and Other Entities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2606803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Tita (0009-0008-5033-9586, University of Tartu), Kareng Ronghangpi (0000-0003-4194-3892, The Assam Royal Global University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-134 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1736-6518 • E-ISSN: 2228-0987 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/jef-2023-0021 |
| OpenAlex | W4389541307 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The Karbi are an indigenous community who mainly live in Assam, a state in North-Eastern India. The territory they inhabit includes dense forest, hardly accessible to humans that is said to be populated by different non-human and humanlike entities, such as deities, spirits, and a humanoid figure named Kenglong-po. According to Karbi folk narratives, the Kenglong-po is a jointless entity who used to be a Karbi child or man but was abandoned in the jungle and survived there. The narratives regarding the Kenglong-po are today confined to elders and are vanishing from Karbi folklore due to the disappearance of the dense forest environment. The present work outlines the perception and transformation of the forest environment within the Karbi community through analysis of the Kenglong-po and other entities that are said to inhabit the territory of this indigenous group
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Ethnology · Folklore · Geography · Indigenous · Jungle · Literature · Narrative · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |