Tribal Thought and Culture

Tribal Thought and Culture
Author: Baidyanath Saraswati
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1991
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788170223405

Contested Coastlines

Contested Coastlines
Author: Charu Gupta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136518290

This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other’s territorial waters. While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious politics of boundaries, it reveals how these fisherfolk create alternative maps and a new world of ‘debordering’. These fishworkers and coastal conflicts have been subjects of everyday news, but never a subject of serious study. A first of its kind, the present book breaks new ground by examining the journeys of these fisherfolk and coastal conflicts in South Asia from several overlapping but distinct perspectives: declining sea resources, security and border anxieties, suffering of the fisherfolk, their ambiguous identities and transnational movements. The book is also innovative in terms of methodology: it is fisherfolk-centric as it marginalizes the concerns of the state from the perspective of security; it questions the very basis of security and argues for a shift in its perspective.

Ethnicity and Mobility (Emerging Ethnic Identity and Social Mobility Among the Waddars of South India)

Ethnicity and Mobility (Emerging Ethnic Identity and Social Mobility Among the Waddars of South India)
Author: Chandrashekhar Bhat
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

India is the home of religion, philosophy and spirituality. Every age, she provides the world with armies of spiritual masters. The beauty of the Indian philosophy is the grand unification of a Metaphysical God who is the Absolute Reality and the substratum of all existence, and a Personal God who is the basis of all morality, ethics and the inspiration to lead a meaningful life. Amongst those Indian philosophers who accepted the separation of mind and body and argued for the existence of the soul, there was considerable dedication to the scientific method and to developing the principles of deductive and inductive logic. As keen observers of nature and the human body, India's early scientist/philosophers studied human sensory organs, analysed dreams, memory and consciousness. The best of them understood dialectics in nature-they understood change, both in quantitative and qualitative terms-they even posited a prototype of the modern atomic theory. The novelty of this book consists of the fact that it introduces the reader to the basic of Indian philosophers and their contribution in Indian philosophy.

My Anthropological Journeys

My Anthropological Journeys
Author: Promode Kumar Misra
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788170998884

This Book Is About The Enterprise Of Anthropology But It Is Focussed On The Vitality Of Culture. It Is Targeted Towards Students Of Anthropology, Professionals, Policy Makers And General Readers.

Mobility and Territoriality

Mobility and Territoriality
Author: Michael Casimir
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000323234

Territorial behaviour among various herders and hunter-gatherers has been discussed in earlier studies, but this is the first time that a comparison of these three types of mobile populations has been attempted. The original papers presented in this volume discuss the conditions and problems of securing access to resources among pastoralists, peripatetics, and hunting, gathering and fishing communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. A comprehensive introductory chapter places these empirical studies in a broader theoretical context of the behaviourial sciences.

Coolies, Capital and Colonialism

Coolies, Capital and Colonialism
Author: Rana P. Behal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521699747

Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811900590

This book presents multidisciplinary critical engagement in Tribe-British relations, the interfacing between colonial mind and tribal worldview, and some of their contemporary implications to conceptualise tribal space and mobilisation at national, regional, and native levels. The approach, argument, and theoretical underpinnings introduce a new perspective dimension of enquiry in tribal studies and enlarge its scope as a distinct academic discipline. It provides theoretical and methodological insights and an innovative analytical frame for a grand intellectual engagement beyond the boundary of conventional disciplines but within the interactive matrix of India’s social, cultural, political, religious, and economic space. The book is a pioneering work in the emerging field of tribal studies and a vital reference point for students and academics and non-academics alike who are engaged in tribal issues.

Shifting Perspectives in Tribal Studies

Shifting Perspectives in Tribal Studies
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811380902

This book brings together multidisciplinarity, desirability and possibility of consilience of borderline studies which are topically diverse and methodologically innovative. It includes contemporary tribal issues within anthropology and other disciplines. In addition, the chapters underline the analytical sophistication, theoretical soundness and empirical grounding in the area of emerging core perspectives in tribal studies. The volume alludes to the emergence of tribal studies as an independent academic discipline of its own rights. It offers the opportunity to consider the entire intellectual enterprise of understanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary dualism, to move beyond interdisciplinarity of the science-humanities divide and to conceptualise a core of theoretical perspectives in tribal studies. The book proves an indispensable reference point for those interested in studying tribes in general and who are engaged in the process of developing tribal studies as a discipline in particular.