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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. The papers included in this volume primarily focus on contradicting perspectives, competing interests and emerging outcomes when the relation between tribes and their resource perceptions shifts along the line of corporate-induced development projects. Precisely, it is a compendium of issues related to development induced displacement. With distinct analytical frames and empirical findings, the papers, contributed by the experts in the field academics, bureaucrats and activists alike unambiguously present a critique to perspectives of people s development within the frame of contemporary development discourse. In a broad sense the relation between ecology and economy has been examined through the papers with reference to specific contexts in development practices where resource perception and utilization are contested by traditional and commercial users. No doubt, the book will be handy for anyone who needs/wants to know the full range of issues on tribal development vis-à-vis mega projects.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Part I: Creating National Space. 1. Indian anthropology and the construction of 'tribal ethnicity' before independence/Daniel J. Rycroft. Part II: Rights Perspectives. 2. Exploring Ideas of autonomy through tribal movements in eastern India/Virginius Xaxa. 3. The social life of categories: affirmative action and trajectories of the indigenous/Bengt G. Karlsson. 4. Tribes, states and colonialism in Asia: the evolution of the concept of indigenous peoples and its application in Asia/Christian Erni. 5. Identity crisis and ethnic assertion among the Thengal Kacharis of Assam/Jyoti Prasad Saikia and Anannya Gogoi. Part III: Rights and Realities: Democracy and Gender. 6. Traditional leaders and democratization in tribal societies/M.C. Arunkumar. 7. Reframing the constructions of gender and egalitarianism: Adivasis in transition/Bhanumathi Kalluri. 8. Customary laws, patriarchy and gender relations in contemporary Sumi Naga Society/Avitoli G. Zhimo. Part IV: Interaction and Subordination: History Repeats. 9. Tribal Livelihood: Status and Challenges (With Special Reference to Central India)/S.N. Chaudhary. 10. The Cauldron of Development: Dissipating Tribal Territories and Increasing Unrest/R. Siva Prasad. 11. Tribes of India: The Victims of Social Abuse/M. Sreenathan. Part V: Exclusion in Inclusion. 12. Implementation of Development Schemes and Exclusion: A Study with Reference to Growth of Education in Arunachal Pradesh/M.C. Behera and Jumyir Basar. 13. Asur as Homo Sacer: Political Economy of Vulnerability/Vikas Dubey. Part VI: Negotiating Development. 14. Anthropological Discourse on Poverty and Vulnerability: A Study with Reference to Sugali Tribe of Andhra Pradesh/Kasi Eswarappa. 15. A Study on the Health-Care Practices among the Sherpas: A Hill Tribe of West Bengal/Chumu Sherpa and Pinak Tarafdar. Tribal studies have been a critical area of enquiry, starting from colonial requirements to contemporary interest of government organizations and NGOs, anthropo-sociological adoption to cross disciplinary recognition, culture and ethnography to multidisciplinary methodological perspectives, academic pursuits to project-induced necessity of evaluation and assessment and from depicting tribes as others to integrating them in nation-building. The emerging trend reflects on perspective shifts and expansions through essays included in this book, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge over a wide range of topical issues on the subject over a period of more than a century. Precisely, the volume is a pioneering attempt to locate whither tribal studies through collection of essays from scholars of diverse background. This volume undoubtedly will be of interest to scholars and students across disciplines. Administrators, policy makers, rights activists and all those interested to know the process of expansion and institutionalization of knowledge on tribal studies in India will also find it useful.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Contents: 1. Culture, Language, Orality and Documentation/Stephen Morey. 2. Odisha/Panchanan Mohanty. 3. Hindustan Loans in Khasi, Chakma and Kokborok/Rupak Debnath. 4. Recapturing Voices for Preservation of Language Rights/M. Sreenathan. 5. Understanding Bugun Identity through a Study of their Language/M.C. Behera. 6. Tribal Languages of Jharkhand/Prabhat K. Singh. 7. Multilingualism and Educational Status of the Savara Tribe in Andhra Pradesh/M. Udaya. 8. English Translation of Paraja and Cultural Deviation/Ramesh Chandra Malik and Panchanan Mohanty. 9. Santal Perceptions of Poverty in Oral and Written Literature/Marine Carrin. 10. Representation of Colonial Modernity in Ethnographic Novels in Indian Literature/Sarat Kumar Jena. 11. Womanism versus Feminism/Nigamananda Das. 12. Different Shades of Femininity/Miaji Hazam. 13. Voices of Poets on Contemporary Maladies in Naga Society/A.J. Sebastian. 14. Palimpsest of Indigenous Communities and Myths/Vibha S. Chauhan. 15. Trickster as First Ancestor/Stuart Blackburn. 16. Blunder, Punishment and Penance/Eli Doye. 17. Telling it Right/Murali Sivaramakrishnan. 18. The (Un)divided Consciousness/Siamlianvung Hangzo. Contributions included in this volume are topically diverse and methodologically innovative; a general perspective pervading throughout is a reflection of an increasingly cross-disciplinary contemporary academic engagement in tribal epistemology with language, literature and folklore as critical areas of enquiry. The whole intellectual enterprise, however, is particularly crucial in that it draws the attention of readers to corresponding branches of knowledge emerging in the field of tribal studies by displaying distinct perspective approaches. Precisely, with distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the contributors of papers have employed suitable concepts, empirical data and theoretical perspectives to study tribal language, fictions and folk narratives. Undoubtedly, the volume is of interest to scholars and students across various disciplines and particularly to all who are committed to tribal studies.