Vulnerability, Marginalization and Culture: (Felicitation Volume for Prof. Deepak Kumar Behera)
Published on 30. June 2018
284 pages
978-93-90368-74-7 (ISBN)
Description
This Felicitation Volume is dedicated to Professor Deepak Kumar Behera and his contribution to the Anthropology of Odisha, India and beyond. It highlights the intersections of the concepts of vulnerability, marginalization and culture - pivotal for his research, which constantly sensitized the academic community as well as the wider society to these themes throughout his career. The volume brings together researchers from India and beyond who collaborated with Professor Behera throughout the last years. All chapters focus on a fieldwork-orientated approach leading to rich ethnographic analyses informed by a long-term engagement between researcher and interlocutors.
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By Rashmi Pramanik and Uwe Skoda
Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- About the Editors
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword by Professor Dr. Georg Pfeffer
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Bio-Note of the Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Vulnerability, Marginalization and Culture
- 2. Sondo Dance of Kodaku Tribe: An Urgent Rethinking Required for Development
- 3. Representation of Human Trafficking in Mexican Mass Media and ItsComplexity on Law Enforcement
- 4. Resource-Tribe-Power Complex and Exclusion: A Scrutiny
- 5. In Search of Education's Promise: Indian Tribal Children LeavingHome for the Hope of a Better Future
- 6. Hindutva and the Quest for Purity: How Popular Hinduism is Marginalized?
- 7. Paradox of Development and Anti-politics in Malkangiri Districtin Odisha, India
- 8. Itinerant and Subaltern Musicians of Western Odisha
- 9. Childhood in Culture: Navigating Between India and Brazil
- 10. Indigenous Knowledge and Empowerment among Adivasis in Jharkhand
- 11. Countering the Impoverishment Risk Through Effective and Realistic Planning of R&R Activities : A Case from Central India
- 12. Forest, Life and Livelihood: For Tribal Development, The Promise must be Delivered
- 13. Ironing out the Creases: Leprosy Stigma among Dalit Women of Sambalpur City of Western Odisha, India
- 14. Indigenous Knowledge on Forest Management: An Approach towards Sustainable Development
- 15. Cockfight and Champa-birdfight: Adivasis, Farmers and Popular Pastimes in North-Western Odisha
- Afterword by Prof. S.N. Rath
