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 elements. These elements taken singly do not yield a pattern which would help us to understand tribal and folkculture in an empirical situation. Uncritical support to or dependence on the perspective of dichotomous construction to study tribal and folkculture is an erroneous approach. There are sound reasons to believe and identify different elements such as tribal, rural, urban etc. while studying a folkculture. Such an integrated approach helps in understanding the continuities and / or discontinuities of a tribal or folk
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chitrasen Pasayat
Dr. Chitrasen Pasayat did his M.A. (1984), M. Phil. (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) in Sociology from Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was the recipient of National Scholarship (1978-82). He qualified the NET conducted by the UGC. New Delhi and awarded Fellowship (1985-91). He has to his credit more than forty research papers published in various journals namely Man in India, The Eastern Anthropologist, Man and Development , Urban India, The Oriental Anthropologist, Adivasi, The Orissa Historical Research Journal, Banaja, Orissa Review and in many edited books. He is associated with various learned bodies and associations. He is the Life-Member of the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi; Ethnographic and Folkculture Society, Lucknow; Institute of Applied Anthropology and Social Research, Bidisa; Orissa Economic Association; The Institute of Oriya Studies, Cuttack; Indian Folklore Association, Kolkata. He is the Founding Member and Vice-President of Association for Linking Community Education Development, Bargarh. His current interest in research are Tribal Studies, Development Issues, Childhood Studies, Ethnicity and Folkculture.
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