Limbu scholars attending the work-shop had expressed their views on the project frame-work designed by Dr. Marohang Limbu in association with the LSC.
Dr. Marohang Limbu from the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University will collaborate, contribute, and provide academic and intellectual support throughout the project work.
"This book will be a handbook for the Yakthungs/Yakthung culture and/or for other global and cross-cultural studies scholars, cultural rhetoric scholars, researchers, (graduate) students, and writers to capture and/or understand the development of Yakthung culture, language, writing, Mundhum, and rhetorics," claims the LSC.
The book will consist of ive chapters:
1. Mundhum: Critical, analytical, conceptual, and foundational understanding of Mundhum
2. Yakthung culture, visual arts, writing, and pedagogy (learning): Shift of epistemology (knowledge) where we were and where we belong
3. Media and Yakthung Identity: Technologies, global network, and Limbuwan
4. Limbuwan: Physical, spiritual, and symbolic identities and
5. Critical and analytical linguistic survey/analyses.
Chaired by Professor Arjun Limbu, Chairman of the LSC, over 37 Limbu scholars from different disciplines had participated in the work-shop.
To be funded by Michigan State University, the book will be edited by Dr. Limbu and published within a year.
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