Shifting perspectives in tribal studies : from an anthropological approach to interdisciplinarity and consilience / Maguni Charan Behera, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Behera, M. C., 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tribes.

Tribes--India.

India.

Indigenous peoples--India.

Indigenous peoples.

Ethnology--India.

Ethnology.

India--Scheduled tribes.

Scheduled tribes in India.

India--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 376 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2019]

Contents:

1. Rethinking perspectives in tribal studies : anthropology and beyond / Maguni Charan Behera

Part I. Indigenous dilemma. 2. Culture : the indigenous account / Alan Barnard ; 3. Confluence of Hindutva protagonists and indigenous religious reform movements in northeast India / Soihiamlung Dangmei ; 4. Indigenous knowledge and value systems in India : holistic analysis of tribal education and the challenge of decentralising control / Malvika Gupta and Felix Padel

Part II. Inter-community space. 5. Rajas, Adibasis and their goddess(es) : Dasara rituals and a sacrificial polity in a former feudatory state in Odisha / Uwe Skoda

Part III. Contextual analysis (case-based studies). 6. Participation of South Odishan tribes in naxal movements : a contextual analysis / K. Anuradha and Jagannath Dash ; 7. Politics of Maoism, Adivasi human rights issues and the state : a study of Chhattisgarh / Rajesh Kumar Meher ; 8. Environmental illness at Klity Creek (Thailand) : a Karen village's quest for justice / Malee Sitthikriengkrai and Nathan Porath ; 9. Rallying around sacred natural sites : Adivasi mobilisations in east-central India / Radhika Borde

Part IV. Space of convergence. 10. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and livelihood promotion of tribes of Odisha / S.N. Tripathy ; 11. A content analysis of education amongst the scheduled tribes in Jharkhand : emphasising government's perspective and conscientiousness / Binod Narayan and Utpal Kumar Chakraborty ; 12. Documentation and digitisation for access to traditional medicine knowledge in southern Odisha / Rashmi Pramanik ; 13. Land, property rights and management issues in tribal areas of Jharkhand : an overview / Hari Charan Behera ; 14. Mining and anthropology in Indian industrialism / Rajanikant Pandey

Part V. Embryonic synthesis. 15. Epidemiology of blood pressure among the tribes of Odisha / Kanhu Charan Satapathy, Prasanna Kumar Patra and Shyama Mohapatra ; 16. Mother care among some Bathudi tribal women in Simlipal Reserve Forest Area in eastern India / Sutapa Mukhopadhyay and Ranjana Ray

Part VI. Borderline interdisciplinarity. 17. Local knowledge in managing upland agriculture by the Adis in Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India / Prasanna K. Samal, Rajiv Mili and Mihin Dollo ; 18. Tribal philosophy : an epistemological understanding of tribal worldview / Heni Francis Ariina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9811380899

9789811380891

OCLC:

1091845236