The Ho
Living in a World of Plenty, Of Social Cohesion and Ritual Friendship on the Chota Nagpur Plateau
Published on 3. October 2023
Book
Hardback
393 pages
978-93-91928-18-6 (ISBN)
Description
The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of 15 years among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The work explores the structured tapestry of the Ho people's social relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific socio-cosmic universe, ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and awareness of living in a world of plenty.
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Eva Reichel was a senior lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. She is associate researcher at the Fro-benius Institute Frankfurt, Germany and associate fellow at the University of Groningen/The Netherlands.