Lok Nath Soni
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Focusing on a variety of crafts from different parts of India, the volume seeks to trace the linkages of craft activities with the structure of living societies, organization of production, marketing, and the utilization of natural resources. Also focusing on the traditional wisdom and skills involved in crafts, traditional value system and beliefs that are expressed through the crafts, the volume evolves an integrated perspective on the crafts and craftsmanship ...
Anthropological Survey of India ; New Delhi : Allied Publishers,
Anthropology emerged in India as a colonial heritage mainly to understand the manners and customs of the so called 'other cultures'. Thus, pre-independent Indian anthropology to some extent was synonymous to tribal ethnography. In the fifties, Indian anthropology extended its horizon by incorporating studies in the realm of village, urban and complex societies that obviously incorporated non-tribal communities at one hand and Indian civilisation, sacred ...
The raut, who were nomadic cattle herders in the incipient stage of their civilisation, have now settled down in the villages of Chhattisgarh and have combined agriculture with their traditional occupation of cattle-herding, which shows their shift from pastoral economy to agricultural economy, involving them in the process of pastoral agriculture continuum. Over a long period of time, systematic modes-socio-economic between the raut and other local peasant ...
