[PDF] Contemporary Society Structure And Exchange In Tribal India And Beyond eBook

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9789351251422

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Contributed articles in honor of S.N. Ratha, b. 1936, former professor at Sambalpur University, Orissa.

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788180696237

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Contributed articles in honor of S.N. Ratha, former professor at Sambalpur University, Orissa.

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788180695346

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Contributed articles in honor of S. N. Ratha, former professor at Sambalpur University, Orissa.

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788170226406

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Contributed articles in honor of S.N. Ratha, former professor at Sambalpur University, Orissa.

Author : A.M. Shah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136197710

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This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982–2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society in contemporary as well as historical perspective, based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material. The book focuses on the significance of village studies in transforming the understanding of Indian society and also shows how urban centres have been useful in shaping society. Taking a critical look at the prevailing thinking on various structures and institutions, the author uses insights derived from his comprehensive studies of kinship, marriage, religion, and grassroots politics in advancing their studies. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of these structures and institutions and the direction in which they are changing with respect to modern time. As against the overwhelming emphasis on the hierarchical dimension of caste, this book focuses on its horizontal dimension, that is, every caste’s population spread over villages and towns in an area, its internal organization and differentiation based on networks of kinship, marriage, patron-client relationship, and role of endogamy versus hypergamy in maintaining its boundaries. The tribes are also seen in the same perspective, emphasizing the tribe-caste homology. Finally, the book provides information on important issues like policy of reservations, the reliability of censuses and surveys of castes and tribes, removal of untouchability, growth of organized religion and secularization.

Author : Peter Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134061110

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The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnographic contributions? How are peoples, communities and cultural areas represented? How has the ethnographic research in the area developed? Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book is an invaluable resource to students and researchers in the field of Indian anthropology/ethnography, regional anthropology and postcolonial studies. It is also of interest to students of South Asian studies in general as it provides an extensive and critical overview of regionally based ethnographic activity undertaken in India.

Author : Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9813290269

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This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are suggestive of grand theories of tribal interaction over time and space within a frame of composite understanding of human civilization. With distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the chapters maximize reader insights into the emerging trend of perspective shifts in tribal studies, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge in the field and providing a road-map of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of anthropology, ethnohistory ethnoarchaeology and of allied subjects like sociology, social work, geography who are interested in tribal studies. Finally, the book can also prove useful to policy makers to better understand the historical context of tribal societies for whom new policies are being created and implemented.

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Detribalization
ISBN : 9788170229834

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Contributed articles in honor of S.N. Ratha, former professor at Sambalpur University, Orissa.