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Bukpui, the Traditional Institute of the Past Darlong
‘BUKPUI’, an institutional house for the Darlongs: Tracing the lost elements of the Darlong ethnicity as imaged and imagined in the ‘Bukpui’ age. ABSTRACT: The Darlong, belonging to one among the many communities of the ‘Zo Hnathla’ nomenclature, had dairies of folk traditions to be unfolded. However, the tribe leaping over a vast ocean of time dropped almost their entire past cultures adopting a new ones thereby leaving themselves almost in a state of blankness. ‘Bukpui’ was the traditional institute of the Darlongs where the heritages are born and contained. The ethnic institute had been acting as a wagon train in carrying out the orature, artefact, the oral narratives and other ethnic elements or the folk traditions as a whole in a varied form when writing and documentation was yet a mystery to them. However, the ‘Bukpui’ f...
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