Short Abstract
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Although the concept of ‘worlding’ had its origin in the ideas put forward by the German phenomenological philosopher Martin Heidegger in his work called “The Origin of the work of Art” (1935), who argued that a work of art never “is” but only “becomes” or “comes into being” in its actualization by a spectator, historian or reader, it finds its reverberation in the Limbu indigenous community of the Eastern Himalayas who forge a distinct ‘worlding’ through mundums. The Present paper would seek to argue that the Limbu mundums are a specimen of the worlding of minor cultures, whereby the indigenous community of Sikkim cathect the outside space through an oral and ritualistic performance to suggest a unique blend of the material world with the semiotic and the environment.
