Overview
- Explores the possibility of developing tribal studies as a discipline drawing on emerging perspectives from history, archaeology and ethnography
- Deals with perspective shift from a complementarity approach to an obviation approach across the disciplines of history, archaeology and anthropology
- Provides a roadmap of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics
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This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are suggestive of grand theories of tribal interaction over time and space within a frame of composite understanding of human civilization. With distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the chapters maximize reader insights into the emerging trend of perspective shifts in tribal studies, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge in the field and providing a road-map of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of anthropology, ethnohistory ethnoarchaeology and of allied subjects like sociology, social work, geography who are interested in tribal studies. Finally, the book can also prove useful to policy makers to better understand the historical context of tribal societies for whom new policies are being created and implemented.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Tribes in History
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Ethno-Dimension of Archaeology
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Historicity in Cultural Understanding
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
M. C. Behera, M. A., Ph. D (Economics) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has been pursuing researches on tribal studies and rural economics from mid-1980s. He has authored/edited/co-edited more than 30 volumes on socio-economic and cultural life of tribal and rural people from theoretical and empirical perspectives. To his credit, he has more than sixty research papers on national and international topics published in various national and international journals. He has presented about sixty five papers in national and international seminars/conferences in the country and abroad. He is a member of many professional bodies. Dr. Behera was a Professor of Indigenous Culture Studies and Dean School of Cultural Studies, Central University of Jharkhand before he joined as Director of Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tribal Studies in India
Book Subtitle: Perspectives of History, Archaeology and Culture
Editors: Maguni Charan Behera
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9026-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9025-9Published: 20 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9028-0Published: 20 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9026-6Published: 09 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies