Asoka Kumar Sen

Indigeneity, Landscape and History (eBook, ePUB)

Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351611862
• Artikelnr.: 48959290

Autorenporträt

Asoka Kumar Sen taught history at Tata College, Chaibasa, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, and retired as a professor (1965-2002). He is presently an independent researcher of tribal history and editor of the Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies. He was awarded a brief fellowship at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, India. He also worked as a researcher for Sussex University, UK, on the British Academy project entitled 'The East India Company and the Natural World: Environment, Innovation and Ideas at the Core of the British Empire'. His published works include The Educated Middle Class and Indian Nationalism (1988); Bengali Intelligentsia and Popular Uprisings 1855-73 (1992); Wilkinson's Rules, Context, Content and Ramifications (edited, 1999); Representing Tribe: The Ho of Singhbhum during Colonial Rule (2011); and From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction Part I Other Representation 1.
Sanskritic and Colonial Representations of Tribe Part 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 a
Pre-state Political Order 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.
Glossary. Bibliography. Index