ISBN:
9780203826010
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
DDC:
305.800954
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Minderheitenpolitik
;
Adivasi
;
Adivasis -- Ethnic identity
;
Adivasis -- Social conditions
;
Group identity -- India
;
India -- Ethnic relations
;
India -- Social conditions
;
Indien
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India and defines a new agenda for Adivasi studies. It considers the existing conceptual and historical parameters of Tribal studies, as a means of addressing new approaches to histories of de-colonization and patterns of identity-formation that have become visible since national independence. Contributors address a number of important concerns, including the meaning of Indigenous studies in the context of globalised academic and political imaginaries, and the possibilities and pitfalls of constructions of indigeneity as both a foundational and a relational concept. A series of short editorial essays provide theoretical clarity to issues of representation, resistance, agency, recognition and marginality. The book is an essential read for students and scholars of Indian Sociology, Anthropology, History, Cultural Studies and Indigenous studies.
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