S.C. Dube's classic work The Kamar was written at a crucial juncture in Indian history - the end of colonial rule and the arrival of Indian independence. It is an important ethnography o an exploited and marginalized tribe in transition and a formative text in the history of Indian anthropology. Based on careful fieldwork and enlivened by ethnographic sensitivity related to the author's long familiarity with region and subject, the study presents a pioneering portrait of the Kamar, an adivasi
community of hunter-gatherers and shifting-cultivators of Chhattisgarh and Orissa. Combining brevity of style, economy of expression, and simplicity of structure, in the book, Dube discusses key themes in anthropology and sociology: economic life, social organization, and customary law, myth, legend
and ritual; rrligion, magic, and witchcraft; and questions of 'cultural contact' and 'tribal adjustment'.
This third edition comes with a new Prologue by Saurabh Dube.
community of hunter-gatherers and shifting-cultivators of Chhattisgarh and Orissa. Combining brevity of style, economy of expression, and simplicity of structure, in the book, Dube discusses key themes in anthropology and sociology: economic life, social organization, and customary law, myth, legend
and ritual; rrligion, magic, and witchcraft; and questions of 'cultural contact' and 'tribal adjustment'.
This third edition comes with a new Prologue by Saurabh Dube.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780198077312
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-807731-2
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.12.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 3rd Auflage
- Serie: Oxford India Perennials Series
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 295 g
- Seiten: 272
- Format (B x H x T): 216 x 145 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt