Sen, Asokh Kumar

Indigeneity, landscape and history : adivasi self -fashioning in India / Asoka Kumar Sen - South Asian edition - London : Routledge 2018 - x, 239 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction Part I Other Representation 1. Sanskritic and Colonial Representations of Tribe Part II Self Representation 2. Meanings of Self and Landscape and Dynamics of Self-fashioning 3. Myth as History: The Representation of Self-landscape in Adivasi Creation Myths 4. Notion of Territory and the Formation of a Pre-state Political Order 5. From Itinerancy to Settled Village Life 6. Norms and Mode of Self-Governance 7. Transformation of a Hunter-forager to a Cultivator 8. Water in Adivasi Perception and the Management of Water Resources 9. Forest as a Marker of Collective Identity 10. Landscape and Fashioning of Self: The Post-independence Scenario 11. Conclusion. Glossary. Bibliography. Index

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Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples--India.
Identity (Philosophical concept)

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