Author : Makhan Jha
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Glimpses of Tribal Life by : Makhan Jha
Download or read book Glimpses of Tribal Life written by Makhan Jha and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights the socio-economic problems of two minor Tribes Asur and the Birjia of Chotanagpur and the cultural changes which have taken place. The study has been based on an empirical fieldwork. This volume, Glimpses of Tribla Life, is thus a comparative analysis of the two minor tribes, who share a common ecological set-up, believe in common social customes, have more or less, same economic problems, interact at the same tribal markets, but also struggle for their spearate cultural idnetity. On account fo various outside impacts and contacts theiroel and behavioral patterns have undergone at change. There are seven chapters in the book, besides several appendices where some raw data like the family history of the informations, glossary of the Asur and the Birjia, chart showing indigenous medicines and diseases etc., have been incorporated. The concrete evidences of their socio-economic activities have been depicted by a few black and white photographs. The book will be highly useful for the students of anthropology, sociology, social workers and planners, who want to know more about the monr tribes of India for their socio-economic developments and whose problems are entirely different than those of the major tribes of India.
