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Indigenous Feminism in the Yakthung/Limbu Tribe

Indigenous Feminism in the Yakthung/Limbu Tribe

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The paper deals with the tenets of feminism immanent within the oral narratives, rhetorical traditions, folklores, folktale and culture of the Yakthung/Limbu tribe inhabiting the Himalayan belt, defying the dichotomy of sexes in Western narratives of the society at a universal level. Yakthung/Limbu tribe is an indigenous tribe of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim and West Bengal who are animist and shamanist in nature. Feminism, the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes, although largely originating in the West as a properly structured and well-known theory, the paper endeavors to bring out the tenets of Feminism imbibed within the aforementioned aspects, prior to the inception of Feminism at a Global level.