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Item Details
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THE AGHRIA
A PEASANT CASTE ON A TRIBAL FRONTIER |
| By: |
Uwe Skoda |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
8173046166 |
| ISBN 13: |
9788173046162 |
| Publisher: |
MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2005 |
| Pages: |
608 |
| Synopsis: |
Studies in Orissan Society, Culture and History Series 5Ethnographic 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. |
| Publication: |
India |
| Imprint: |
Manohar Publishers and Distributors |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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