Healing in intercorporeal harmony: decolonial (re-)cognition of Angami Naga shamanic therapeutic traditions in Avinuo Kire's The Last Light of Glory Days
Interventions April 23, 2025 Sampda Swaraj, Binod Mishra
Indigenous shamanic therapeutics have often been reductively construed as either religious or psychopathological phenomena within (neo)colonial academic discourses. Cutting across these reductive interpretations, this article presents a culturally embedded, decolonial exposition of Angami Naga shamanic aetiology and treatment through an ethno-literary analysis of two short stories from Avinuo...