Edited Prabodh Kumar Bhowmick Manis (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. One: Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity: 1. Debate among the Purums: crisis in the Purum identity/M.C. Arunkumar. 2. Search for new identity among the tribal people of Manipur/T.S. Gangte. 3. Kuki nationalism - a centrifugal force/T.S. Gangte. 4. Christianity and tribal identity: the case of the Santals of Bhimpore, West Bengal/Shyamal Kumar Jana. 5. Pando ethnicity through traditional polity/Nilanjan Khatua and B.M. Mukherjee. 6. Ethnic identity through oral tradition: the case of the pastoral Charan of Sourastra/Arup Ray. II. Educational status: 7. Schooling among hunter-gatherers of Andamans/M. Sreenathan. 8. Problems of tribal education - a key to development/Moyna Chakravarti and C.S. Singral. 9. Educational attainment of the Santal children in primary level/Samita Manna and Soumyajit Patra. 10. Education among the primitive tribal groups of West Bengal/Nabakumar Duary. 11. Education among the Santhals of Birbhum/Sandhip Kumar Ghatak. 12. Tribal education and the role of the teacher/V. Rama Rao. III. Economic condition: 13. Dispossession of the tribal people from their agriculture land: the Kora case/Lakshman Jana, Tapan Barman and Abhijit Guha. 14. Bio-cultural study of variation in utilization of resources in different tribal zones of Orissa/S.K. Ghoshmaulik and Usha Deka. 15. Impact of changing economy on the social life of the Birjia/Samira Dasgupta. 16. Economic life among the Gadbas of Bastar/M. Y. Khan. 17. Economic development of the Konda Reddis of Andhra Pradesh/Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri and Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri. 18. Tribal indebtedness: a socio-economic analysis/Pradip K. Bhowmick and P. Sahoo. 19. Indebtedness among the Gadaba: a symptom of under development/S. Vijaya Kumar and V. Narayana Reddy. IV. Social Structure: 20. Social structure and kinship of an ex-bonded labour community/Bindu Ramachandran. 21. Birinda: the agnetic lineage system of the Lanjia Saoras of Orissa/M.R. Acharya and R.P. Mohanty. 22. Descent organisation and corporate action among the Mudugas of Kerala/George Tharakan. C. 23. Kinship and marriage of the santal: some introspective observations/Kakali Mitra, Sujit Kumar Paul and Amit Hazra. 24. Consanguineous marriage in a Rongmei Village of Tamenglong, Manipur/T. Shyamacharan Singh and Kaijinliu Riamei. V. Health nutrition and sanitation: 25. Drug-addiction vis-a-vis social health and development: the Singpho case/R.K. Kar. 26. Ethno medicines of the tribes of Andhra Pradesh/M.V. Krishna Rao and O.S.V.D. Prasad. 27. Health Hazard in the Koireng community/Shajahan Sardar. 28. Problems and prospects of health development among the Lodha/Shyamal Kr. Jana. 29. Health and nutritional scenario of the tribal population in Jharkhand/Swapan Koley and Tilak Bagchi. 30. A study on environmental sanitation and sanitary habits among the Bharias of Patalkot, Madhya Pradesh/A.N. Sharma.…