Changing Tribal Life

Conceptualizing The Hos Of Singhbhum As A Tribe, The Contributors In This Book Discuss At Length The Significance Of Myth And Rituals Among The Tribals, Folk Treatment System, Dialectics Of Identity And Assimilation, And Socio-Religion Of The Tribes.

The Book Traces The British Government S Policy Towards The Aboriginal People Of Orissa, Particularly The Kandhs, And The Reaction It Caused In The People. The British Effort To Tame The Tribals By Armed Measures Was Followed By Their Effort To Civilise The Savages By Education And Widen The Scope And Scale Of Their Acculturation With Civilised People In The Neighboring Tracts. This Caused A Great Change In Tribal Life, Society And Polity. Tribal Reaction To This Externally-Induced Change Varied Between Stubborn Resistance And Grudging Acquiescence, Depending On The Pace And Extent Of The Change. The Policy Of Civilising The Savages Was Later Changed To The Policy Of Conserving Tribalism , The Government Realising The Damage Done To Tribal Tradition And Psyche. The Study Of The British Tribal Policy Is Worthwhile Because The Main Problem Faced By The Administrators Then Persists Even Today: The Problem Of How To Improve Tribal Life Without Causing, As An Inevitable Outcome, Progressive Detribalisation; How To Modernise Tribal Life Without Destroying In The Process The Distinctive Features Of Tribal Tradition And Culture. Contents Chapter 1: Tribal History Of Orissa: Perspective, Problems And Prospects; Chapter 2: Tribal History Of Orissa: A Study In Archival Source Materials; Chapter 3: The Kandhs Of Ganjam, 1836-1861: British Impact On A Tribal Society; Chapter 4: The Ganjam Agency, 1839-1900: Problems Of Tribal Administration; Chapter 5: Female Infanticide In The Hill Tracts Of Ganjam; Chapter 6: Bonded Labour In The Ganjam Agency: Dichotomy In British Tribal Policy; Chapter 7: The Kutiya Kandh Uprising, 1865-1866; Chapter 8: Bamra, Patna And Kalahandi, 1868-1882: Tribal Peasant Discontent In Western Orissa; Chapter 9: Tribal Administration In Transition: The Ganjam Agency, 1935-1947; Chapter 10: Conclusion.

It’s a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people “tribe.” Malcolm Gladwell and other authors have written about how the fact that humans are genetically programmed to form “tribes” of 20-150 people has proven true throughout our species’ history. Every company in the word consists of an interconnected network of tribes (A tribe is defined as a group of between 20 and 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else). In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright show corporate leaders how to first assess their company’s tribal culture and then raise their companies’ tribes to unprecedented heights of success. In a rigorous eight-year study of approximately 24,000 people in over two dozen corporations, Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright discovered a common theme: the success of a company depends on its tribes, the strength of its tribes is determined by the tribal culture, and a thriving corporate culture can be established by an effective tribal leader. Tribal Leadership will show leaders how to employ their companies’ tribes to maximize productivity and profit: the author’s research, backed up with interviews ranging from Brian France (CEO of NASCAR) to “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, shows that over three quarters of the organizations they’ve studied have tribal cultures that are adequate at best.

It Studies The Impact Of Economic Development On The Socio-Economic Conditions Of The Tribes. It Describes The Influence On The Life Style Of The Tribes And Suggests Means For Improving Their Socio-Economic Conditions.

"Shortly after her famous anthropological field studies in Samoa and Manus, Margaret Mead was sent by the American Museum of Natural History to investigate the family life and the social setting of an Indian tribe living on a government reservation. The pioneer work that resulted from her observations is here reprinted with a new introduction relating our treatment of the Indians to the whole question of "racial guilt." Dr. Mead sketches in the background of the tribe, describes their reservation, and discusses the economic and political situation of these wards of the government, as well as their social organization, religion and education. One section is devoted to a detailed study of the Indian woman and her place in this changing culture, and a concluding section provides statistical data, sample conversations and case histories."-- Back cover.

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.