The Kamar, Third Edition Paperback / softback
by S.C. (, Former Director of Research and Principal of the National Institute of Community Devel Dube
Part of the Oxford India Perennials Series series
Paperback / softback
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S.C. Dube's classic work The Kamar was written at a crucial juncture in Indian history - the end of colonial rule and the arrival of Indian independence.
It is an important ethnography o an exploited and marginalized tribe in transition and a formative text in the history of Indian anthropology.
Based on careful fieldwork and enlivened by ethnographic sensitivity related to the author's long familiarity with region and subject, the study presents a pioneering portrait of the Kamar, an adivasi community of hunter-gatherers and shifting-cultivators of Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
Combining brevity of style, economy of expression, and simplicity of structure, in the book, Dube discusses key themes in anthropology and sociology: economic life, social organization, and customary law, myth, legend and ritual; rrligion, magic, and witchcraft; and questions of 'cultural contact' and 'tribal adjustment'. This third edition comes with a new Prologue by Saurabh Dube.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:OUP India
- Publication Date:01/12/2012
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- ISBN:9780198077312
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Unavailable
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:OUP India
- Publication Date:01/12/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198077312