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Tribal literature is unique of the unique due to its very nature as communitarian, land-centred, egalitarian, resistant, outspoken, and shared aesthetic values. It is eco-friendly, pastoral, mystical, nondualistic, essential unity of all realities, and spiritual-mythical conscious.
This unit presents the belief systems, religious practices and symbolism of major tribal groups especially from central and eastern Indian states. Although it focuses on certain tribal groups tribal religious philosophy of the tribes emerge from the lesson. 1.1 INTRODUCTION
In this unit we explain the basic elements of the tribal religions. It has two parts. The first part explains the general characteristics of the tribal religions. It also analyses the need for the belief systems which are important elements of any society.
Followings are two of the definitions of tribe given by different scholars which may be examined for clarification: Maine contends: “The tribes themselves, and all subdivisions of them, are conceived by the men who compose them as descended from a single male ancestor”.
People of different caste , class , creed , and race interact with one another to fulfill their primary needs . Depending upon the quality of interaction , the members become a part of various societies . One such society is tribal society.
UCSP C3 Lesson 3 - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document summarizes different types of political systems and levels of organization defined by anthropologists. It outlines four types identified by Elman Service: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
‘the tribe’. What is the tribe? It is very largely a creation of laws drawn up by a colonial state which imposes group identities on individual subjects and thereby institutionalises group life. The census provides an illustration. In post-1857 India, the law enforced, the census recorded
