Anu Jebisow

Seasons of Life:
Birds, Plants and People through the Year

Hrusso Aka Community
Huluguvo, Buragaon, West Kameng, Arunachel Pradesh

Anu Jebisow has documented Hrusso speakers’ traditional ecological knowledge about annual cyclical events, such as crop cultivation and harvesting, and their relationships to changing features of the environment such as songbird calls or the blooming of wildflowers signalling a change in season. The collection includes several hours of audio and video recordings documenting various aspects of village life and the local subsistence economy. A select number of these recordings have been annotated with time-aligned transcriptions and translations into English and Arunachali Hindi. Of particular note is the documentation of Hrusso ritual language, known today to only a few surviving ritual specialists. 

All of her audio/video files are accompanied by a short description of the texts in English. They have been transcribed and translated into Hindi, and are now available to view at PARADISEC (login or sign up to view files in PARADISEC).