[PDF] Tribal Social Structure eBook

Author : Dhananjay Kumar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000606988

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India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal with social structure and less on culture, while studies on tribes focus more on culture than on social structure. What has resulted from this bias is a general misunderstanding that tribes have a rich culture but lack social structure. This volume emerges out of an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana and Warli. It analyses and compares their internal social organisation consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks. The book also deals with changes taking place in the social structure of contemporary tribal societies. While the focus is mainly on the data from tribes of western India, the issues are relevant to pan-Indian tribes. An important contribution to the studies on tribes of India, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, demography, history, tribal studies, social work, public policy and law. It will also be of interest to professionals working with NGOs and civil society, programme and policy formulating authorities and bureaucrats.

Author : Debabrata Mandal
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788175330719

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The present book is not only the holistic study of these people, but also emphasises their economic transformation in the varied ecology, which ultimately brought some socio cultural changes in the life pattern of this tribe. The author examined the factors responsible for their primitiveness. This book is useful not only as an ethnographic documentation, but it will help social scientists and social workers to understand the problems of the primitive tribe and possible prospects as well.

Author : Dhananjay Kumar
Publisher : Routledge India
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003299790

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"India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal with social structure and less on culture, while studies on tribes focus more on culture than on social structure. What has resulted from this bias is a general misunderstanding that tribes have a rich culture, but lack social structure. This volume emerges out of an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses and compares their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks. The book also deals with changes taking place in the social structure of contemporary tribal societies. While the focus is mainly on the data from tribes of Western India, the issues are relevant to pan Indian tribes. An important contribution to the studies on tribes of India, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, demography, history, tribal studies, social work, public policy, and law. It will also be of interest to professionals working with NGOs and civil society, programme and policy formulating authorities, and bureaucrats"--

Author : Georg Pfeffer
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,86 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 : Max Gluckman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351498150

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What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social relations to their large-scale social context. At the outset Gluckman explains to the reader that custom is the focus of interest of all types of anthropology. Yet his approach manifests a strong interest in economy, politics, and social relationships.In the volume, Max Gluckman offers a succinct version of a lifetime of opinionated analysis. This material is organized by theme and the ethnographic examples appear as brief illustrations of theoretical questions. Discussed here also is the relation between disputes and struggles for power within the context of mechanisms of social control and stability.In addition, Gluckman presents a step-by-step survey of the cumulative development of the anthropological analysis of tribal institutions, from the nineteenth century to the present, and supports the argument that anthropology is a science rather than an art. The new masterful introduction by Sally Falk Moore, along with a new postscript of Gluckman's professional activities and publications, provides newcomers to the work of Gluckman with deep insights into the contents as well as contexts within which the great anthropologist worked.

Author : William A. Parkinson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789201713

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Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

Author : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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An introductory survey of anthropological theory on kinship and social structure; case studies included discussion of the Kariera four-section system as an example of a symmetrical alliance system.