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Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India

Asoka Kumar Sen

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Description:This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora, homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights.Drawing on a range of historical sources—from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives—the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal and indigenous studies and politics.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India. To get started finding Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected historical moments and representations of being, becoming and belonging, it situates the content and complexities of Adivasi self-fashioning in contemporary times, and discusses constructions of selfhood, diaspora, homeland, environment and ecology, political structures, state, marginality, development, alienation and rights.Drawing on a range of historical sources—from recorded oral traditions and village histories to contemporary Adivasi self-narratives—the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology and social anthropology, tribal and indigenous studies and politics.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India. To get started finding Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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