• Mrs. Sini Jacob
• Dr. Rositta Joseph Valiyamattom

Abstract Cultural ecology provides a new paradigm for a sustainable man-nature relationship. As an emerging field of study in ecocriticism, it deviates slightly from the path of ecocriticism with its focus on the interrelation between texts and external natural ecosystems. Cultural ecologists explore the cultural ecosystems of language, literature, and other art forms in their co-evolutionary relation with natural ecosystems. The cross-fertilization between culture and ecology helps to provide experimental fields for testing cultural alternatives to the unwholesome outlook of modern mechanized society. This paper probes into the differences between the modern dominant culture and the cultures of the sustainable indigenous communities and their ecological ways of life. The main argument is that Literature as a representation of culture can act as an ecological force in the cultural system. The present research attempts to situate Mamang Dai within the conceptual framework of cultural ecology proposed by cultural ecologists like Hubert Zapf and to demonstrate how these cultural transformations of ecological processes can bring about the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures.

ecocultural, indigenous, sustainability, resilience, reinhabitation

"ART AND/ AS ECOLOGY : PERCEPTION OF ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY IN MAMANG DAI’S THE BLACK HILL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.f333-f337, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301546.pdf

"ART AND/ AS ECOLOGY : PERCEPTION OF ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY IN MAMANG DAI’S THE BLACK HILL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppf333-f337, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301546.pdf