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Indigeneity, landscape and history : Adivasi self-fashioning in India /​ Asoka Kumar Sen.

By: Publisher: London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2018Description: x, 239 pages : maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138106147 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 305.800954 SEN 011718
Contents:
pt. I Other representation 1.Sanskritic and colonial representations of tribe pt. II Self-representation 2.Meanings of self and landscape and dynamics of self-fashioning 3.Myth as history: the representation of self-landscape in Adivasi creation myths 4.Notion of territory and the formation of pre-state political order and beyond 5.From itinerancy to settled village life 6.Norms and mode of self-governance 7.Transformation of a hunter-forager to a cultivator 8.Water in Adivasi perception and the management of water resources 9.Forest as a marker of collective identity 10.Landscape and fashioning of self: the post-independence scenario 11.Conclusion.
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305.800954 RET 012528 Rethinking tribe in Indian context : 305.800954 RIS 017723 The People of India / 305.800954 SAK 012540 Tribal studies and beyond : 305.800954 SEN 011718 Indigeneity, landscape and history : 305.800954 SOC 003294 Social exclusion and adverse inclusion : 305.800954 SRI 016232 India's tribes : 305.800954 SUN 016056 The scheduled tribes and their India :

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-230) and index.

pt. I Other representation
1.Sanskritic and colonial representations of tribe
pt. II Self-representation
2.Meanings of self and landscape and dynamics of self-fashioning
3.Myth as history: the representation of self-landscape in Adivasi creation myths
4.Notion of territory and the formation of pre-state political order and beyond
5.From itinerancy to settled village life
6.Norms and mode of self-governance
7.Transformation of a hunter-forager to a cultivator
8.Water in Adivasi perception and the management of water resources
9.Forest as a marker of collective identity
10.Landscape and fashioning of self: the post-independence scenario
11.Conclusion.

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