The Ho : living in a world of plenty : of social cohesion and ritual friendship on the Chota Nagpur Plateau, India. / Eva Reichel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reichel, Eva, 1948- author.

Series:

Religion and Society ; 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--India--Chota Nāgpur.

Indigenous peoples.

Interpersonal relations--India--Chota Nāgpur.

Interpersonal relations.

Ho (Indic people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 394 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of more than a decade among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The book explores the structured tapestry of Ho people’s relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific sociocosmic universe ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and the awareness of living in a world of plenty. This world of abundance – with the Ho as its conceptual centre – includes the Ho’s dead, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans, and it manifests itself in manifold facets of their lives: socially, ritually, economically, and linguistically. "This is an important piece of work. The ethnographic details in it are invaluable. The fieldwork is superb. What comes across so magnificently is that unique quality of the author's human and emotional contact and shared understanding with the people." MICHAEL YORKE: University College, London; Upside Films

Contents:

Frontmatter

Abstract

Contents

Acknowledgments

Annotations

Prologue

1 Introduction: Living in a world of plenty

2 The Chota Nagpur Plateau: terrain and people

3 Living in a world of relations: of Ho social categories

4 Ho accounts of social cohesion in history, myth, and the present

5 Relatedness across tribal boundaries: the Ho and their clients

6 The saki relation as ritual friendship

7 Two portraits as conclusion

Appendices

Glossary I: Notes on Ho history

Glossary II: Ho terms

Lists of Plates, Figures, and Maps

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-066619-7

OCLC:

1191864495