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

By:

Sen, Asoka Kumar

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, r 2022.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 239 p.: 22 cmISBN:

9781138106147

Subject(s):

HISTORY Asia India & South Asia and HISTORY Social History

DDC classification:

23 305.800 SEN

Contents:

1. Sanskritic and colonial representations of tribe 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

Summary: This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora, homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights. Drawing on a range of historical sources - from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives - the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal and indigenous studies and politics

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	305.800 SEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		47181

1. Sanskritic and colonial representations of tribe
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

This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora, homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights. Drawing on a range of historical sources - from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives - the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal and indigenous studies and politics

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