Mobile and Marginalized Peoples Perspectives from the Past
Heredia, Rudlof C. & et. al. (Eds.)
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Book ID : 18288
ISBN-10 : 81-7304-497-X / 817304497X
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7304-497-7 / 9788173044977
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition :
Language :
236p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
The Specific Themes covered in this volume are modernization and victimization of the disadvantaged; nomadic pastrolism and tribal organisation as seperate from the state; the rise of the chiefships of state in regions where it was pastoralism rather than agriculture that produced wealth; artisanal mobility and the kinds of crafts produced by pastrolists; the desertions of agrarian settled region in the past; the forms of incorporation of tribal society into fedual states; shifting cultivation and its relationship with pesentry and local markets; and the gradual changes effected in pastoral society in early Tamilakam.
