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The traditions and institutions of the Santals
Traditions and Institutions of the Santals Horkoren Mare Hapramko Reak Katha. Bulletin 6
Santalia
Author: Paul Olaf Bodding
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9788787062732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Reverend P.O. Bodding lived as a missionary amongst the Santals in Santal Parganas in India for more than 30 years. During that period he helped the Santals to collate their folklore, which he transcribed into the documents which are presented in this catalogue.
Horkoren Mare Hapramko Reak'Katha
The Hill of Flutes
Author: W.G. Archer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1000209547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1974, The Hill of Flutes, is a descriptive account of the Santals and their poetry in their heartland of the Santal Parganas. The book explores the Santal world view, including approaches to education, love, sex, and marriage. It describes and discusses Santal dances, festivals and ceremonies, and other key events and gatherings, such as annual hunts. Through the close consideration of song and poetry, The Hills of Flutes offers an engaging insight into life in Santal society.
Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Author: Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1135211833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote deliberate attention to diverse locations of subalternity: in the conditions and histories of slaves, dalits, peasants, illegal immigrants, homosexuals, schoolteachers, women of noble lineage; in the Third World and the First; in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial times. With contributions from a diverse group of distinguished scholars, the anthology explores issues of gender and sexuality, migration, race, caste and class, education and law, culture and politics. The very juxtaposition of different bodies of scholarship serves to challenge common perceptions of inherited histories – claims to American and Indian ‘exceptionalism’ – and promotes a new awareness, not only of shared histories and shared struggles in the making of the modern world, but of particularities and facets of our different histories and societal conditions that are assumed as being well understood, and hence often taken for granted. Subaltern Citizens and Their Histories will be essential reading for scholars of colonial, postcolonial and subaltern studies, American studies, US and South Asian social science and history.
Performing Identities
Author: GeoffreyV. Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1351554611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.
Changing Tribal Life
Author: Padmaja Sen
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9788180690235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conceptualizing The Hos Of Singhbhum As A Tribe, The Contributors In This Book Discuss At Length The Significance Of Myth And Rituals Among The Tribals, Folk Treatment System, Dialectics Of Identity And Assimilation, And Socio-Religion Of The Tribes.
Making Place through Ritual
Author: Lea Schulte-Droesch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-10
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 3110540851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indian indigenous societies are especially known for their elaborate rituals, which offer an excellent chance for studying religion as practice. However, few detailed ethnographic works exist on the ritual practices of these societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jharkhand, India this book offers insights into contemporary, previously not described rituals of the Santal, one of the largest indigenous societies of Central India. Its focus lies on culturally specific notions of place as articulated and created during these rituals. In three chapters the book discusses how the Santal "make place" on different local, regional and global levels through their rituals: They reaffirm their ancestral roots in their land during large sacrificial rituals. They offer sacrifices to the dangerous deities of the forest in exchange for rain. And they claim their region to be a "Santal region" through large festivals celebrated in sacred groves, which they link to national and global discourses of indigeneity and environmentalism. Through an analysis of the rituals of a specific society, this book addresses broader issues. It presents an example of how to study religion as a practical activity. It portrays culture-specific perceptions of the environment. And last, the book underlines the potential that lies in choosing place as a lens to study social phenomena in context.
