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The Role of Oral Literature and Folklore in Preserving Cultural Identity: the Paite of North-East India

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Argues that Paite oral tradition is not simply storytelling but a form of autobiographical ethnography — a record of how a people understand themselves. Examines how migration, patriarchal social organisation and the arrival of Christianity in the early twentieth century reshaped belief and social structure. Directly relevant to why this archive records recitations rather than summaries of them.

Credit: Dr. Chingbiakmawi and Dr. Manglien Gangte, AD Eduxian Journal, Vol. 2 Issue 2, May–July 2025 (ISSN 3048-7951)

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