Indian Tribal Cultures
| When: | Su 28-06-2015 |
| Where: | Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Groningen |
28 June - 3 July 2015: Studying their life-worlds, doing fieldwork & writing ethnographies
“Tribe” is an administrative category in India comprising some 100 million people. Politically and academically it is a contested concept. When it comes to the tribal people of India a lot has been written about their alleged backwardness and about politics, much less about their cultures based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork.
Our three-fold focus will be the study of tribal cultures, how ethnographic fieldwork has been and can be done and how it can be discussed and recorded. We will, firstly, present and discuss the worldviews, rituals and social forms of selected Indian tribal societies. Second, we will discuss the complex process of doing fieldwork, its modes, challenges, chances and problems. Finally, we will reflect on how to write about these cultures and our experience with these cultures.
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