Department of Cultural Studies
Tezpur University
Masters:
PhD:
Journal articles:
2024. "Folklore as Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of Folk Elements in Bhupen Hazarika’s Songs." Ānandam: Journal of Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art and Culture, Assam Vol. 13: 242 – 252. 2024. [Co-author: Baishali Baruah]
2024. "Family Crisis in Globalising India: Feminine Agency and Masculine Anxiety in the Web Series Kohrra." Journal of Media and Communication 2 (7): 80 – 93. December 2023. [Co-author: Priyanka Das]
2019. "Humanizing Alexa: Some Reflections on Recent TV Advertisements of Amazon Echo Smart Speakers." The Journal of Acharya Narendra Dev Research Institute, Vol-27 (Jan 2019-Jun 2019), ISSN : 0976-3287. [Co-author: Amiya Kumar Das]
2019. "Conflicts behind the Spectacle: The Turbulent History in making of the Karbi Youth Festival in Assam." Maharshi Dayanand University Research Journal ARTS, 2019, Vol. 18 (1) pp.33-49. ISSN 0972-706X. [Co-author: Prafulla Kumar Nath & Amiya Kumar Das]
2019. "Violation and Vulnerability of Human Rights in the Context of Tea Garden Workers in Assam with Special Reference to Social Protection Schemes." NIU International Journal of Human Rights Volume: 6, 2019, ISSN: 2394-0298. [Co-author: Amiya Kumar Das & Rabin Deka]
2012. "Ethnicity and Elite Politics: Some Reflections on Oral Narratives of Assam." Janakristi: Annual Research Journal of Folklore Society of Assam 2 (5 & 6): 125- 134. [Co-author: Prafulla Kumar Nath]
2011. "The Assamese Films of Bhabendra Nath Saikia Another Parallel Stream of Indian Cinema." Journal of Creative Communications (Sage) 6 (1 & 2): 215-224. [Co-author: Minakshi Dutta] https://doi.org/10.1177/0973258613499104.
2009. "Baresahariya Bhaona: Community Drama Festival of Assam: A Living Tradition." Asian Theatre Journal (University of Hawai'i Press) 26 (2): 303-319. [Co-author: Madan M. Sarma] https://www.jstor.org/stable/20638825.
2004. "The Folklorist in Museum: A Discussion on the Importance of Folkloristics in Museum Research " Journal of Indian Museum (Museums Association of India) 57: 45-49.
2000. "Management of Cultural Heritage: Some Problems in Assam with Special Reference to Majuli Riverine Island." Studies in Museology (M. S. University, Baroda) 35-40.
Books:
2019. Dutta, Parasmoni, ed. A Catalogue of Traditional Craft Objects of North East India. Tezpur: Tezpur University.
2016. Nath, Debarshi Prasad, and Parasmoni Dutta, eds. Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Guwahati and Tezpur: Purbanchal Prakash in association with the Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University.
Select book-chapters:
2023. “Glimpses of the dance world of North-east India”. In Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra: Celebrating Dance in North East India, edited by Debarshi Prasad Nath, Ralph Buck, and Barbara Snook. London and New York: Routledge. 8 – 21.
2021. 'Questions around Ram Vijay: Sattriya in a Monastic Tradition'. In Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments, edited by Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha. New York: Oxfor University Press. [Co-authors: Narayan Chandra Goswami, Paula Richman, and Rustom Bharucha]
2016. "Intangible Cultural Heritage in India: Reflections on Selected Forms of Dance." In The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage, edited by Michelle L Stefano and Peter Davis, 230 - 239. London & New York: Routledge.
2016. "Sattriya under the Classical Gaze." In Vaisnavite Music of Assam: Its Institutionalization and Performative Context, edited by Pradip Jyoti Mahanta, 169 - 174. Guwahati: Purbanchal Prakash.
2014. "Bezbaroa as Folklorist." In Lakshminath Bezbaroa :The Architect of Modern Assamese Literature: Issues of Nationalism and Beyond, edited by Madan M. Sarma and Debarshi Prasad Nath, 235 - 241. Tezpur: Centre for Assamese Studies, Tezpur University.
2013. "Heritage Studies." In Cultural Studies: Perspectives from North-East India, edited by Pradip Jyoti Mahanta and Debarshi Prasad Nath, 77 - 84. Guwahati & Tezpur: Purvanchal Prakash & Tezpur University.
2009. "Brief History of Folklore Studies with Special Reference to India." In Folklore and Culture: Conceptual Perspectives, edited by Nandini Sahu, 20 - 32. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University.
2009. "Meanings and Significance of Heritage and Culture." In Folklore and Culture: Conceptual Perspectives, edited by Nandini Sahu, 185 - 193. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University.
2009. "Oral-Written Continuum." In Cultural and Societal Transformation, edited by Nandini Sahu, 22 - 29. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Conference Proceedings, International:
2005: 'Ecomuseology in India: An Appraisal with Special Reference to the Sattra Institutions of Assam'. In Donghai, Su (Ed.) Communication and Exploration: Papers of International Ecomuseum Forum, pp: 217- 222. Guizhou, China. ISBN: 7-80047-674-0/K-277
2012: 'The Other Ecologies: Why there is no Ecomuseum in India'. In Lira, Sergio et al (Eds.) ECOMUSEUMS 2012: 1st International Conference on Ecomuseums, Community Museums and Living Communities. Seixal, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-98013-0-1
2016: Module: "Folk Culture", for the Course Comparative Literature and Culture, under the e-PG Pathsala Programme, UGC & MHRD, New Delhi.
Ph D works supervised:
Ph D supervision ongoing :
MA Dissertations/Documentations supervised:
Papers in Seminars and Conferences:
2024: “Narrativizing the 1990s: Some reflections on the ‘#90s Kids’ memes on Indian Social Media” in the 19th ISFNR Congress on Folk Narratives in the Changing World, June 17 – 21, 2024 in Riga, Latvia.
2019: 'The Mythical Past in Present Times: Emergent Narratives and Practices of Myths in the North-East India?' in Sahitya Akademi seminar on Creation Myths in Tribal Literatures of Eastern Regional Languages, Koraput, Orissa, 9 -10 March.
2019: 'Dynamics of Space and Time in Ankiya Bhaona' in 11th Ankiya Bhaona Samaroh, Satriya Kendra, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Guwahati, 11 February.
2019: 'The Other Functions of Books: Lived Experiences and Literary Expressions on Books as Material Objects' in National Seminar on Book History in North-East India, organized by the CPEPA, Tezpur University, 11 -12 February.
2018: 'From Tradition to Market, Hands to Machines and Women to Men: Changing Course of the Clay Craft of Salmora, Majuli' in Comite Internation-al d 'Histoire de l'Art India International Colloquium 2018 on Art, Design and Society, organized by National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi, 28 ? 30 November.
2017: 'Sense of Time and Value System in Folk Literature: Selected Aspects with special reference to Assamese Folk Literature' in Sahitya Akademi Seminar on Folk Literatures in West and North-East Indian Languages, Goa, 14 -15 July.
2016: 'Jilapeer paak: Food in Saurabh Kumar Chaliha's Writings' in National Seminar on Food Cultures of India, organized by Tezpur University and Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, 1 -2 December.
2015: 'Indian Museums after New Museology' in All India Museums Annual Conference on the theme Regional Museums and their Contribution to Indian Museum Movement, organized at Guwahati by the Museums Association of India, New Delhi, 20 -31 January.
2014: 'Spectacularization of Culture: Some Observations on the Recent Trends in Traditional Art Forms of Assam' in National Seminar on People's Art of North-East India: History, Identity and Emerging Realities, organized by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), Bhopal and Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, at Itanagar, 5 -7 March.
2013: 'Documenting Oral Histories of the North-East India: A Preliminary Note' in National Seminar on Recovering the Oral Histories of Northeast India, held at Dimapur, Nagaland, organized jointly by Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Nagaland Chapter), 31 October -1 November.
2013: 'The Classical Gaze: Some Reflections on the Politics of Aesthetics in Sattriya Dance' in National Seminar on The Vaisnavite Music of Assam: It's Institutionalization and Performative Context, organized by Department of Cultural Studies under UGC?s SAP-DRS (I), 20 ? 21 March.
2010: 'The uses of performance space for the aesthetic representation of Ankiya Bhaona' in Ankiya Bhaona Samaroh, organized by Sattriya Kendra, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Guwahati, 29 March.
2005: 'Archiving Folklore Digitally' in 27th Session of the Indian Folklore Congress, organized by Department of Folklore Research, Gauhati University, in collaboration with CIIL, Mysore; ICHR, Delhi; Shrimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati and MAKAIAS, Kolkata, 31 January ? 2 February.
2003: 'Ecotourism and Indigenous Culture: A Discussion with Reference to North-East India' in National Seminar on Sustainable Growth of Eco-Tourism in North- East India, Department of Business Administration, Tezpur University, 26 -27 September.