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Can small indigenous communities survive, as distinct cultural entities, in areas of great ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity? How successful are such communities in resisting the efforts of the state and their dominant neighbours to erase cultural difference? These are some of the questions addressed in this work with reference to the small Tangsa community living in Assam in northeast India, by analysing the performance of their ethnicity at festivals.

Tangsa (Indic people) --- Festivals --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Assam (India)

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"This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on about 300 groups, the ten countries they live in, their historical figures, and their salient political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects"--

Ethnology --- Southeast Asia --- History