Anthropological perspectives on Indian tribes /

Channa, Subhadra Mitra.

Anthropological perspectives on Indian tribes / Subhadra Mitra Channa. - Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020. - xiii, 296 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Tribe: who, what and why? -- 2. Social life of tribes: marriage, family, kinship and gender -- 3. Livelihoods and environment -- 4. Religion and world view -- 5. Concepts of justice and legal mechanisms of tribal societies -- 6. Tribes and the state -- 7. The present and the future: globalisation, identity and the road ahead -- Index.

9789352879991 (Pbk)

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

2020330354


Ethnology--India.
Tribes--India.
Identity politics--India.


India--Social life and customs.

GN635.I4 / C478 2020

305.800954 C3629A



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