Book
Inner frontiers: Santal responses to acculturation
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Dept. of Social Science and Development • Bergen • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: Carrin-Bouez, Marine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the four articles which comprise the major portion of this work, Carrin-Bouez presents a comparative study of the Santals in the three Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa in relationship to the surrounding Hindu society (the Ho, Birhor, and Munda tribes). The first essay analyzes traditional leadership between headman and priest in the sample emphasizing how they share a common structure of power and authority. In the second essay the author describes the situation of the tribes during the colonial period with particular reference to the tribal movement which emerged from 1820 to 1855 culminating in the Santal rebellion of 1855-1857. This movement was especially important to the Santals in promoting the reform of tribal values in the face of Hindu influence (p. 1). This article also discusses the Santal concept of 'foreigner' as invader or intruder, referred to in the text by the pejorative term DIKU, and leads to the third essay in this study concentrating on the idea of the foreigner as incestuous kin. The last article in this volume deals with the synthesis of indigenous thought and external influence in regard to rationality, causality, and classification in Santal medicine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Sickness
- Spirits and gods
- Kinship regulation of sex
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Santal
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1978-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa States, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marine Carrin-Bouez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-18, 36-37, 49, 80-82)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Santal (South Asian people)