{"product_id":"against-state-against-history-jangkhomang-guite-9780199489411","title":"Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India","description":"Living in the shadow of state is not a dark, static and silent world. It was the world in full radiance, involving multiple process of reenactment to life, lifeways and relationship. If state and history demonized the hill people as the 'pest' and 'nuisance' to civilization, and the hill practices as the 'relics' of the 'primitive', the hillmen's narratives celebrated them as their core cultural collective. \u003cem\u003eAgainst State, Against History\u003c\/em\u003e is a radical reevaluation of the dominant civilizational narratives on the 'tribe' and attempts to recast their history in the light of recent historiography that presents the hillmen as state evading population. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together both conventional and oral narratives, and from the counter-perspectives of the margin, the book explores the conditions in which section of valley population escaped to the hills, their migration history, how they reenact their space, society, culture and economy in the hills. Their physical dispersion in the highland terrain, choosing an independent village polity, defended by trained warriors, fortressed at the top of hills, connected by repulsive pathways, following\u003cem\u003e jhum\u003c\/em\u003e economy, and adopting a pliable social, cultural, ethnic and gender formations, are their counter cultural collective at the margins of state. They were reenacted to prevent state control and the emergence of domination relations in the hills. This process is understood as \u003cem\u003eunstate \u003c\/em\u003einvolving the process of disowning state and becoming an egalitarian society where freedom of individuals was located at the core of their cultural collective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jangkhomang Guite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199489416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199489411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Jangkhomang Guite","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054716186879,"sku":"9780199489411","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d09dc9de-2d4e-44f5-83e3-adf24a0824d6.jpg?v=1685031574","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-state-against-history-jangkhomang-guite-9780199489411","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}