History of Tribal Society and Culture
By: Chitrasen Pasayat
Publisher: Zenith Books International, B-1, ABC Complex, Veer Savarkar Block, Shakarpur, Delhi-110092, India
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9788190421256
Subjects: Anthropology-Ethnology-Tribal Studies; Indian Culture-Tribal Culture-Folkculture
Other titles: History of tribal society & culture
Description: On the issue of relationship between the tribal people and the caste-Hindus in India, there are two different views. One is that, many social and cultural traditions of the Hindu Great Tradition have organic links with the tribal society and culture. On the other hand, it is also believed that, the Tribal and Hindu Traditions are separate, tribal people do not have more than casual contacts with the caste-Hindus. Papers in this volume reveal that, caste-Hindus have been substantially influenced by the tribal people in India throughout the history. Neither Sanskritisation nor Tribalisation is exclusively helpful in explaining and understanding a social or cultural item in a society or community. Attempts have also been made in these papers to study myth associated in different walks of life and how history is carefully blended with the tradition to construct a picture of the past. Thus, papers in this volume unfold downward devolution of cultural elements of the Great Tradition and their integration with the Little Traditional elements. The papers presented in this volume were earlier published in various edited books and social science journals. Following eight papers are included in this volume: 1. Oral Tradition of Huma and Legitimisation of Chauhan Rule; 2. Hindu Mode of Tribal Absorption of a Tribal Deity and State Formation During Medieval Period in Sambalpur; 3. Oral Narrative and Hindu Method of Assimilation; 4. Oral Narrative, Social Reality and Social Formation: From Struggle for Existence to State Formation during Medieval Period; 5. Oral Narrative and Tribal - Non-tribal Interaction; 6. Myth and Reality in Little Tradition; 7. Oral Narratives as Localised Versions of Universal Folklore; 8. Political Economy as Reflected in Oral Tradition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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