Academic lecture on “Wealth on the Hearth: Power, Magic, and Authority in Karbi Community” on Apr 14 2022

You are very welcome to the lecture organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore in collaboration with the Estonian Society for the Study of Religions (EAUS) on the topic of wealth-bringing spirits among the indigenous Karbi Community. Below are the details:

Academic lecture on “Wealth on the Hearth: Power, Magic, and Authority in Karbi Community”
Speaker: Kareng Ronghangpi
Phd Student, Royal Global University, Assam, India
Visiting Doctoral Student, DoRa Plus, University of Tartu, Estonia

Date: 14 April 2022, 16:15, Ülikooli 16-212 and also in Zoom:

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The Karbi community are indigenous people of North-East India, who believe that nature has volition and agency inhabited by humans and other-than-humans who live together and coexist. Bap is a wealth-bringing spirit who demands human life in return. There are three varieties of bap among Karbi. This talk will describe the practice of keeping this spirit using primary ethnographic data. It will also look at the crucial question of how the community responds to the encounter with modernity and what happens to bap in these new contexts.

Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore;  Estonian Society for the Study of Religions (EAUS)

This talk is supported by the Estonian Research Council grant PRG670 "Vernacular Interpretations of the Incomprehensible: Folkloristic Perspective Towards Uncertainty"

Information: liilia.laaneman@ut.ee, 737 53 04