This article examines the encounter between Tibetan Buddhist monastic traditions and indigenous animist cosmologies in the hill societies of present-day Arunachal Pradesh between the eighth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork by Verrier Elwin, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, and Niranjan Sarkar, alongside material and archival evidence, the study traces how the...
This paper examines ritual landscapes and sacred spaces through the lens of landscape archaeology, focusing on megalithic and Neolithic monument complexes. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from phenomenology, spatial analysis, and social memory studies, this investigation explores how prehistoric communities constructed and experienced sacred geographies. The analysis incorporates case studies...