
The Kamar, Third Edition
S.C. Dube(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published in December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-19-807731-2 (ISBN)
Description
S.C. Dube's classic work The Kamar was written at a crucial juncture in Indian history - the end of colonial rule and the arrival of Indian independence. It is an important ethnography o an exploited and marginalized tribe in transition and a formative text in the history of Indian anthropology. Based on careful fieldwork and enlivened by ethnographic sensitivity related to the author's long familiarity with region and subject, the study presents a pioneering portrait of the Kamar, an adivasi community of hunter-gatherers and shifting-cultivators of Chhattisgarh and Orissa. Combining brevity of style, economy of expression, and simplicity of structure, in the book, Dube discusses key themes in anthropology and sociology: economic life, social organization, and customary law, myth, legend and ritual; rrligion, magic, and witchcraft; and questions of 'cultural contact' and 'tribal adjustment'.
This third edition comes with a new Prologue by Saurabh Dube.
This third edition comes with a new Prologue by Saurabh Dube.
More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, and politics, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 145 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807731-2 (9780198077312)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
S.C. Dube (1922-1996), was Director of Research and Principal of the National Institute of Community Development, Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu.
Author
, Former Director of Research and Principal of the National Institute of Community Development, Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu
Content
PROLOGUE, BY SAURABH DUBE; PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION; INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION; FOREWORD; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ECONOMIC LIFE; 3. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE; 4. PHASES OF LIFE; 5. TRIBAL LAW AND ITS BREACHES; 6. MYTH AND RITUAL; 7. CULTURE CONTACTS; 8. PROBLEMS OF TRIBAL ADJUSTMENT; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY