Auteur: Joseph Puthenpurakal

Prof.T.B. Subba teaches Anthropology at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. His research interests include ethnicity, development, culture, and »diasporic studies. He has done intensive fieldwork in Darjeeling, Sikkim and East Nepal. His more recent works are Between Ethnography and Fiction: Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in India (Orient Longman, 2005), which he edited with Sujit Som, and indigenity in India (Kegan Paul 2006), edited with B.G. Karlsson. Also, he is Editor of a multi-disciplinary periodical called The NEHU Journal, published by the North-Eastern Hill University Publications, Shillong. He has been awarded DAAD Guest Professorship by the Free University of Berlin, Germany and Dr. Panchanan Mitra Lectureship for 2008 by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata. Fr. Joseph Puthenpurakal is Professor of Missiology at Secred Heart Theological College. He has spent nearly four decades in Northeast India. Former editor of Mission Today [earlier known as Indian Missiological Review], Prof. Puthenpurakal is presently the director of DBCIC (Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures), Shillong and Curator of Don Bosco Museum, Mawlai, Shillong. Fr. Shaji Joseph Puykunnel is Professor of Sacred Scripture and President of Sacred Heart Theological College, Shillong. He is also involved in Caring Ministry, especially on behalf of rickets-affected children in and around Shillong.