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International workshop on indigenous folklore studies at NU

Dimapur, Aug 13 (UNI) A two-day international workshop on the ‘indigenous folkloristics: methods and approaches’ commenced at the Centre for Naga Tribal Language Studies, Nagaland University, Kohima, today.
Convener of the workshop Dr Yanbeni Yanthan said the workshop has been organised to explore how other indigenous communities across the world navigate the realities of cultural hegemony and change.
It is also aimed at encouraging the Nagas to engage with their own folklore and oral traditions through a multifaceted lens that fosters greater inclusivity and dynamism in current approaches to folklore studies and advance the call to “put the folk back into folklore”, reframing it as both a scholarly, cultural and social imperative, and as a step towards the broader project of decolonisation.
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