Conversions, population movements and ethno-cultural landscape in the Assam–Meghalaya borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6039486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Ramirez (0000-0003-2581-8266, Établissement public Campus Condorcet, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 340-352 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Ethnicity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14631369.2015.1091650 |
| OpenAlex | W2341534654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In Northeast India, ethnic and religious conversions may be intimately associated. In the Assam–Meghalaya borderlands, conversions to Christianity throughout the twentieth century introduced a new factor in the interplay of spatial movements and cultural mutations, without fundamentally disrupting its basic principles. It is these complex dynamics that are described in this article through the history of three localities. Epidemics, religious conversions and cultural segmentation largely account for the present distribution of ethnicities
Archaeology · Christianity · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Population · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Demography · History · Indian History and Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |