The Kamar

By S.C. Dube

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198077319
• ISBN13: 9780198077312
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 5.7"