Chitrasen Pasayat
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This compilation of fifteen essays seeks to examine some important aspects of tribal and folk tradition in India, with special reference to the tradition of ‘Yatra’ of West Odisha. It analyses the role of co-existence in bringing about cultural changes in rural and tribal areas in the perspective of tribal-caste interaction, tribal-non-tribal interaction and little tradition-great tradition.
Further, it relates the revivalism of tribal and folk ...
Conventional studies viewed the tribal and the folkculture on the basis of dichotomous constructions of human society such as rural or urban, peasant or elite, tribal or non-tribal, literate or illiterate, sophisticated or unsophisticated and the like. Such approach continues to influence the whole genre of writings on tribal and folklore studies also. In such a perspective the two worlds have been viewed as systems with distinctive and often contradistinctive ...
Purity-Pollution is an universal phenomenon found in all the known societies in the world. Purity of mind, body and soul is believed to be essentially required to approach the divine objects. Pollution occurring due to birth, death, menstruation, puberty etc., is commonly observed by the people including tribals, Muslims and Christians in India. But, purity-pollution as a principle of caste system is unique in Indian social reality. Untouchability is the outcome ...
The incidence of poverty by social group unfolds the truth that there is higher concentration of poverty among the tribal population in both the rural as well as urban areas of Orissa. Their weak resource base, their low position in socio-economic and political hierarchy, illiteracy, their relative lack of access to facilities provided by developmental measures; and their inadequate participation in institutions are mainly responsible for their backwardness. It ...
On the issue of relationship between the tribal people and the caste-Hindus in India, we find 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, some maintain that the tribal and the Hindu traditions are separate; tribal people do not have more than casual contacts with the caste-Hindus. However, varied nature of social realities suggest ...
On the issue of relationship between the tribal people and the caste-Hindus in India, we find 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, some maintain that the tribal and the Hindu traditions are separate; tribal people do not have more than casual contacts with the caste-Hindus. Papers in this book reveal the fact that caste-Hindus ...
On the issue of relationship between the tribal people and the caste-Hindus in India, we find 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, some maintain that the tribal and the Hindu traditions are separate; tribal people do not have more than casual contacts with the caste-Hindus. However, varied nature of social realities suggest ...