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Culture, identity and development: an account of team ethnography among the Bhil of Jhabua

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2011 Rawat Publications JapirDescription: viii, 344 pISBN:
  • 9788131601280
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800954 P2C8
Summary: The book explores certain contemporary issues pertaining to the interface between culture, identity and development among the Bhil ? an adivasi community of western India. The forces of globalization, coupled with out migration and the rise of civil society initiatives, have necessitated a search for new identity among the Bhil for a meaningful existence. The changing dimensions of traditional cultures are reinterpreted in the light of emerging cultural practices in a space that is continuously getting permeated by technological innovations, information flow and political activities of religious and secular leaders. (http://www.rawatbooks.com/book_more_detail.aspx?id=609)
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The book explores certain contemporary issues pertaining to the interface between culture, identity and development among the Bhil ? an adivasi community of western India. The forces of globalization, coupled with out migration and the rise of civil society initiatives, have necessitated a search for new identity among the Bhil for a meaningful existence. The changing dimensions of traditional cultures are reinterpreted in the light of emerging cultural practices in a space that is continuously getting permeated by technological innovations, information flow and political activities of religious and secular leaders. (http://www.rawatbooks.com/book_more_detail.aspx?id=609)

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