The present volume is an outcome of a seminar organised by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) and Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar. The book re-examines some of the basic debates linking the concept of variegated art forms, culture and its manifestations in Northeastern parts of India. The papers describe different aesthetic traditions covering a wide range of cultural dimensions, such as, arts and crafts, paintings, music, dance and drama, textile, verbal art etc., of Northeastern states. It focuses on the issues of historicity, identity as well as emerging realities in this region from interdisciplinary perspectives. This book would thus be immensely useful to the scholars/researchers and students of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, folklore, tribal studies as well as many other disciplines who are concerned with India's Northeast and its cultural diversities. about the Editor: Dr. Sarit K. Chaudhuri is currently working as professor and head of the department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU), Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Earlier he has worked in Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies (AITS), RGU and Anthropological Survey of India, Shillong. As the director of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), Bhopal, he tried to take forward the wave of new museum movement to India's Northeast. His prime research engagements are with the issues concerning Indigenous religion, art, identity, cultural heritage, dynamics of India's Northeastern borderlands and ethnographic museums.