Author: Pradip Kumar Bhattacharya
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study chiefly of Bankura District and Purulia District of West Bengal.
Author: Ananya Baruya
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9788172111793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book courageously illustrates the societal practice of witch-hunting which is simply nothing but a manmade evil. • Special attention has been given to Dooars region in northern parts of West Bengal. • Focuses also socio-economic structures and status of women in the tribal society. • Indicates some solutions, which have not been received adequate attention so far. • Highlights strong protest against the shadows of superstitions and beliefs. Encourages people to prevent this social exclusion bravely.
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.
Author: National Archives of Finland
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-10-13
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 311097035X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lea Schulte-Droesch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-10
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 3110539853
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.
Author: Sheryl Lightfoot
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1478027606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. The contributors explore the profound and varying impacts of borders on Indigenous Peoples around the world and the ways borders are challenged and worked around. From Bangladesh’s colonially imposed militarized borders to resource extraction in the Russian Arctic and along the Colombia-Ecuador border to the transportation of toxic pesticides from the United States to Mexico, the chapters examine sovereignty, power, and obstructions to Indigenous rights and self-determination as well as globalization and the economic impacts of borders. Indigenous Peoples and Borders proposes future action that is informed by Indigenous Peoples’ voices, needs, and advocacy. Contributors. Tone Bleie, Andrea Carmen, Jacqueline Gillis, Rauna Kuokkanen, Elifuraha Laltaika, Sheryl Lightfoot, David Bruce MacDonald, Toa Elisa Maldonado Ruiz, Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram, Melissa Z. Patel, Manoel B. do Prado Junior, Hana Shams Ahmed, Elsa Stamatopoulou, Liubov Suliandziga, Rodion Sulyandziga, Yifat Susskind, Erika M. Yamada
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-11-09
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9813290269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Sahdev Luhar
Publisher: N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
Published: 2023-02-25
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 8195500846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.