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Aghria: A Peasant Caste on a Tribal Frontier

Autor Uwe Skoda
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 2004
Studies in Orissan Society, Culture and History Series 5 Ethnographic literature, with its emphasis on tribal communities, has to a large extent ignored the Aghrias, a peasant community of western Orissa and Chhattisgarh. Questions of cultural change and Hinduization, extension of state structures and the problems of transitions in tribal and caste societies have mostly been discussed in anthropological studies from the angle of individual tribes and immigrating Brahmins or from the level of little kingdoms. There is very little empirical evidence from the perspective of peasant as culture brokers'. This book explores the life of the Aghrias and their place at the interface between tribal and caste societies. Migrating into predominantly tribal areas, the Aghrias cleared the forests and gradually experienced a social ascent, becoming revenue collectors or village kings' in several princely states. These pioneers of state formation decisively shaped an emerging mixed society. While trying to fill the research gap in this area, the author also examines the ideas and values of both the tribal and the caste societies in their probably unique setting and regional synthesis. The emphasis in this book is on the themes of mythology, social relations and inter-community networks, kingship, kinship relations, life cycle rituals and the amalgamation of the cycles on the basis of cultural symbols.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788173046162
ISBN-10: 8173046166
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 145 x 225 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.8 kg
Editura: Manohar Publishers
Colecția Manohar Publishers (IND)

Cuprins

Glossary; Initiation into a Converging Tribal & Caste Society; Aghria Mythology; Inter-Group Relations; Aghria as Village Kings; The Aghria Kinship System; The Life Cycle; Amalgamation of Cycles: Laksmi & Khunt as Cultural Symbols; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.