Encyclopaedic Ethnography of the Himalayan Tribes

Encyclopaedic Ethnography of the Himalayan Tribes
Author: Narendra S. Bisht
Publisher: Global Vision Publishing Ho
Total Pages: 1930
Release: 2004
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9788187746911

The Sole Objective Of This Encyclopaedic Ethnography Is To Present The Descriptive Summaries Of 279 Tribes Of Himalayan Region Which Is The Meeting Place Of International Borders Of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, India, Nepal And Tibet. Here We Focus On The Ways Of Living Of Himalayan Tribes (Both Past And Present) And The Factors That Have Caused The Culture To Change Over Time And Place. Summaries Of Each Entry Usually Provided Information On The Following Aspects: Physical Features; History Of Origin And Development; Social Life; Rites And Rituals; Socio-Political Administration; Economic Acti-Vities; Religion And Culture; Inter-Community Relationship; Modernisation; And Biblio-Graphy. The Task Which We Have Performed Here Is, No Doubt, Beset With Difficulties But We Shall Consider Our Labour Amply Rewarded If This Monumental Work Is Found Useful By Scholars And Readers Of Ethnic Study Of Himalayan Tribes.

Encyclopaedia Of North-east India Vol# 5

Encyclopaedia Of North-east India Vol# 5
Author: Col Ved Prakash
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2007
Genre: India, Northeastern
ISBN: 9788126907076

This 5-Volume, Encyclopaedic Study Of India S North-East Is The Result Of The Author S 11 Years Of Service Extended Over Three Tenures In The Region, Followed By 6 Years Of Library Research After His Retirement. Being The First Of Its Kind, Given Its Contents And Sheer Size, Over 2,500 Pages, It Is A Unique Book.Writing On The North-East Is Not An Easy Exercise, Given Its Diversity (Ethnic, Racial, Religious And Linguistic), Size, History And Geography. If India Is Microcosmic World, The North-East Is Microcosmic India. Of The 5,653 Communities In India, 653 Are Tribal Of Which The 213 Are Indigenous To The North-East. Of The 213, 111 Are Found In Arunachal Pradesh Alone. Illumined By An Equally Amazing Linguistic Diversity, It Is Home To 325 Of The 1,652 Languages Spoken In India. Yet Again, North-East S Total Population Of 3,84,95,089 (2001) Constitutes 2.69 Per Cent Of India S 1,02,70,15,247, While Its Area Of 2,55,088 Sq Km Is 7.75 Per Cent Of India S 32,87,263 Sq Km.

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: East and Southeast Asia

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: East and Southeast Asia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1991
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

A basic reference source to the cultures of the world. Provides descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or of a representative sample of cultures for regions where full coverage is impossible, as well as accurate descriptions of cultures of the past.

Tribal Studies in India

Tribal Studies in India
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9813290269

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.

Strangers Of The Mist

Strangers Of The Mist
Author: Sanjoy Hazarika
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2000-10-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 8184753349

This book would have been completed earlier but for events that disrupted millions of lives across India, including those of journalists : the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, by a Hindu mob on 6 December 1992 and the communal riots that followed across the country. In January 1993, the selective massacres of Muslims at Bombay and the devastating revenge bomb blasts there two months later led to extensive travelling and reporting for the New York Times. In addition, there was 'normal reporting' : the Punjab, environmental, economic and political issues such as the billion dollar scam.

Dot Com Mantra

Dot Com Mantra
Author: Payal Arora
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1317148339

Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility. This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is for the most part undocumented. In doing so, this book offers fresh and critical perspectives in areas of contemporary debate: informal learning with computers, cyberleisure, gender access and empowerment, digital intermediaries, and glocalization of information and media.